Quotes About Diversity

I haven't been in a company in five years where people aren't whispering, "This is great, but, um, how do we talk about race?

Power within is defined by an ability to recognize differences and respect others, grounded in a strong foundation of self-worth and self-knowledge. When we operate from a place of power within, we feel comfortable challenging assumptions and long-held beliefs, pushing against the status quo, and asking if there aren't other ways to achieve the highest common good.

We're going to need to intentionally be with people who are different from us. We're going to have to sign up, join, and take a seat at the table. We're going to have to learn how to listen, have hard conversations, look for joy, share pain, and be more curious than defensive, all while seeking moments of togetherness.

I'm white and everything is made for me." A black female student said, "I'm straight. I can hold hands with my boyfriend without fearing violence." Another student said, "I'm a Christian. I can wear my cross necklace to school and no one calls me a terrorist." A

We are complex beings who wake up every day and fight against being labeled and diminished with stereotypes and characterizations that don't reflect our fullness.

But then, if it's the case that we can care about citizens and the police, shouldn't the rallying cry just be All Lives Matter? No. Because the humanity wasn't stripped from all lives the way it was stripped from the lives of black citizens.

Look out into that audience again. These are people. Just people.

Jeremy Bentham, the great utilitarian philosopher, once spiked this argument. He said, 'There are two types of people in the world, those who divide people into two types, and those who do not.

No matter how separated we are by what we think and believe, we are part of the same spiritual story.

It doesn't matter if the group is a church or a gang or a sewing circle or masculinity itself, asking members to dislike, disown, or distance themselves from another group of people as a condition of "belonging" is always about control and power. I think we have to question the intentions of any group that insists on disdain toward other people as a membership requirement. It may be disguised as belonging, but real belonging doesn't necessitate disdain.

Mercifully, it will take only a critical mass of people who believe in finding love and connection across difference to change everything.

All lives matter, but not all lives need to be pulled back into moral inclusion

It doesn't matter if the group is a church or a gang or a sewing circle or masculinity itself, asking members to dislike, disown, or distance themselves from another group of people as a condition of "belonging" is always about control and power.

all men, just of different cultures, wearing different uniforms, having different-coloured skins perhaps, but simply men nevertheless

know, but the way I see it, there's really no pure race. Everybody is mixed with something.

More than one thing can be true at once.

Love has no colour, love has no gender, it is found everywhere and anywhere, only when accepted.

Disorders in our internal ecosystem—a loss of diversity, say, or a proliferation of the 'wrong' kind of microbes—may predispose us to obesity and a whole range of chronic diseases, as well as some infections.

Whenever possible, you gotta try to see the goings-on of life through more eyes than just your own, because that can help you see things more clearly.

Every cripple has his own way of walking.

Jesus came not only for those who skip morning meditations, but also for real sinners, thieves, adulterers, and terrorists, for those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams. I HAVE COME TO CALL NOT THE SELF-RIGHTEOUS, BUT SINNERS. (MATT. 9:13)

The kingdom is not an exclusive, well-trimmed suburb with snobbish rules about who can live there.

From that moment on, no Christian can ever say one form of prayer is as good as another or one religion is as good as another.

Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is a crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.