Quotes About Diversity

A different language is a different vision of life.

There was no difference between the men and the women of the Black Panther Party. We were all working to serve the community.

Computer games tend to be boys' games, warlike games with more violence. We have not spent enough time thinking through how to encourage more girls to be involved in computing before coming to college so they can see a possible career in information technology.

The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.

Having grown up in Bombay, from the day you're born, you have absolute freedom to choose who you want to be.

A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.

The secret of living in peace with all people lies in the art of understanding each one by his own individuality.

At the bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique human being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

It is impossible to describe a landscape so validly as to exclude all other descriptions, for no one can see the landscape in all its aspects at the same time, and no single view can prevent the existence and validity of other equally possible views.

On remarquera sans peine que ce nouveau livre a la même contexture que nos précédents ouvrages, c'est-à-dire qu'il se compose d'essais plus ou moins indépendants les uns des autres, et d'importance inégale [...]

Quand on parle de civilisations, on fait volontiers valoir tels aspects fragmentaires, soit en bien soit en mal : on oublie que la civilisation chinoise n'est pas la déformation des pieds des femmes, et qu'un hôpital ou une route n'est pas une civilisation. Une civilisation est un monde, c'est-à-dire une totalité faite de compensations. Il n'y a pas d'organisme complexe sans quelques maux; la nature est là pour le prouver.

Rather than revering supposedly special people for being Buddhas, we should revere the Buddha present in all people, whenever and wherever it manifests. D?gen talks about learning from anyone, no matter what their station in life, if that person says or does something wise.

In D?gen's view everything is sacred, and to single out one specific thing, like a book or a city or a person, as being more sacred than anything else is a huge mistake.

We are both individuals and expressions of the universe. These are not mutually exclusive.

It'll take a hell of a long time, but one day they will have their piece of the world, and my grandchildren will be going to school with their grandchildren or great-grandchildren. And whites will be marrying colored. And everyone becoming some kind of light shade if brown. That's what it'll be one day.

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.

To think that one's actions could please the masses is indeed a notion bound in irony; someone will inevitably find something wrong in almost everything. So do what it is that you do best and remember to have enough tolerance for two.

All of us are heaven-sent, and there was never meant to be only one.

Someone will inevitably find something wrong in almost everything, so do what it is that you do best and remember to have enough tolerance for two.

Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail.

Vin isn't…like other women." Tindwyl raised an eyebrow, her voice softening slightly. "I think that the more women you come to know, Your Majesty, the more you'll find that statement applies to all of them.