Quotes About Diversity

There can be no such thing as rigorously identical cultures. To believe one can create a black culture is to forget oddly enough that "Negroes" are in the process of disappearing, since those who created them are witnessing the demise of their economic and cultural superiority. There will be no such thing as a black culture . . .

To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.

I am black; I am in total fusion with the world, in sympathetic affinity with the earth, losing my id in the heart of the cosmos -- and the white man, however intelligent he may be, is incapable of understanding Louis Armstrong or songs from the Congo. I am black, not because of a curse, but because my skin has been able to capture all the cosmic effluvia. I am truly a drop of sun under the earth.

If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.

There is no fundamental difference in the ways of thinking of primitive and civilized man. A close connection between race and personality has never been established.

I believe the present state of our knowledge justifies us in saying that, while individuals differ, biological differences are small. There is no reason to believe that one race is by nature so much more intelligent, endowed with great will power, or emotionally more stable than another that the difference would materially influence its culture.

What can it mean, 150 years after Darwin, to say that some species or communities are good and some are bad?

Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. Every one of us is a part of that jewel. A facet of that jewel. And in the perspective of infinity, our differences are infinitesimal.

We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.

The way you would draw a tree is different from the way anyone else would draw a tree—and that's the way it's supposed to be!

It's the people who feel strong and good about themselves inside who are best able to accept outside differences—their own or others'. We help children develop this ability every time we affirm how special they are to us for being themselves, and how special to us are all the things that make each person different from anyone else.

We want to raise our children so that they can take a sense of pleasure in both their own heritage and the diversity of others.

It's very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It's easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is really exciting to me is to see people with differing views come together and finally respect each other.

and a man, half black and half white, on his right arm. That means something in skinhead lore, but I don't know what.

The world's full of details, have you noticed? And since no detail is ever repeated in exactly the same shape and always sets off other details, there's no end to it.

The range and diversity of...places in England with character or charm is often overlooked. A bicycle more than anything else helps one both to find and to appreciate them: they and it have quiet tastes in common. And a bicycle leaves no smell, oil-drip, weakened fabric or frightened pedestrian in its wake.

You profess to believe that "of one blood God made all nations of men to dwell on the face of all the earth"—and hath commanded all men, everywhere, to love one another—yet you notoriously hate (and glory in your hatred!) all men whose skins are not colored like your own!

The relation subsisting between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to solve.

In all the relations of life and death, we are met by the color line.

In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black, but common country, common citizenship, equal rights and a common destiny.

Viljoen) Voy a decirle una cosa, señor ingles: es usted un jagdhond muy bueno. - Gracias -- replico Preston. -¿Sabe usted que es un jagdhond? - Tengo entendido, que el perro de caza de Ciudad del Cabo es lento pero muy tenaz. Fue la primera vez en aquella semana, que el capitán Viljoen echó atrás la cabeza y soltó una carcajada.

Every man must get to Heaven his own way.

Kurt Schumacher, the Hanover-based anti-Nazi who quickly became the leading figure in the post-war Social Democratic Party, was outraged. 'Wir sind kein Negervolk' ('We are not blacks') the fiery former concentration-camp inmate told Annan.

All religions must be tolerated... for... every man must get to heaven his own way.