Quotes About Diversity

Which I wish to remark,And my language is plain,That for ways that are darkAnd for tricks that are vain,The heathen Chinee is peculiar,Which the same I would rise to explain.

employees—cooks, maids, amahs, tailors, drivers, accountants, managers, and advisers. A few had their

Een panter is anders dan een aap', zei Gerard, na een pauze, 'maar is een van de twee minder dan de ander? Dat vind je een idiote vraag, en je hebt gelijk. Blijf dat nou net zo idioot vinden, wanneer het mensen betreft. Anders zijn - dat is gewoon. Iedereen is anders dan een ander. Ik ben ook anders dan jij. Maar minder of meer zijn door de kleur van je gezicht of door wat je vader is - dat is nonsens.

Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.

Where is it written that if you don't like religion you are somehow disqualified from being a legitimate American? What was Mark Twain, a Russian?

Sorrow and respect didn't follow a colour scheme.

We all have our peculiarities," said Wallander.

The people in the refugee camp, so varied in their language, dress, and terrible experiences -- imparted through a look or sometimes words -- had only this in common: nothing to look forward to.

Our lives are unique stones in the mosaic of human existence -- priceless and irreplaceable.

Today I personally believe that while Jesus came to open the door to God's house, all human beings can walk through that door, whether they know about Jesus or not. Today I see it as my call to help every person claim his or her own way to God.

Community has little to do with mutual compatibility. Similarities in educational background, psychological make-up, or social status can bring us together, but they can never be the basis for community. Community is grounded in God, who calls us together, and not in the attractiveness of people to each other. There

That is the great joy of being chosen: the discovery that others are chosen as well. In the house of God there are many mansions. There is a place for everyone – a unique, special place. Once we deeply trust that we ourselves are precious in God's eyes, we are able to recognise the preciousness of others and their unique places in God's heart.

The children of God have more in common then they have differences.

Every person is different and has a different contribution to make. No one is destined to fail.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

I would not have every man nor every part of a man cultivated, anymore than I would have every acre of earth cultivated.

Some things are really necessaries of life in some circles, the most helpless and diseased, which in others are luxuries merely, and in others still entirely unknown.

I would not have any one adopt my mode of living on any account; for, beside that before he has fairly learned it I may have found out another for myself, I desire that there may be as many different persons in the world as possible; but I would have each one be very careful to find out and pursue his own way, and not his father's or his mother's or his neighbor's instead.

Nature abhors repetition

Shall the world be confined to one Paris or one Oxford forever?