Quotes About Diversity

Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that makes us human.

This was, after all, Ankh-Morpork, where a man walked free even if he was not, strictly speaking, a man.

Yes, but nomes aren't hard to make," said Dorcas. "You just need other nomes." "You're weird.

El C. I. de una muchedumbre es el C. I. de su miembro más estúpido dividido por el número de sus integrantes.

old folks are s'pposed to like listenin' to the sound of children playin', I read that somewhere, I don't see why we should get told off 'cos we've got the wrong kind of old folks—

Ach, noo yer talkin' oour language," said Rob Anybody. "Not…quite," said Tiffany.

Right, pass the word along: no one is to look like a sock, understand?

There is no one true church, no one chosen people.

Most of all, differences of opinion are opportunities for learning.

Each of us has one. Each voice is distinct and has something to say. Each voice deserves to be heard. But it requires the act of listening.

Life is not so predictable. I am forced to listen more carefully. In the right and left worlds, the stories told are largely set, there much to defend at the expense of the other, rhetoric is charged with certitude; it's safer here, we are sure we are correct. We become missionaries for a position, yes, exactly, no doubt about it, practitioners of the missionary position. Variety is lost. Diversity is lost. Creativity is lost in our inability to make love with the world.

Perhaps this is what our national parks hold for us: stories, of who we have been and who we might become- a reminder that as human beings our histories harbor both darkness and light. To live in the United States of America and tell only one story, from one point of view, diminishes us all.

We can choose to move like water rather than be molded like clay. Life spirals in and then spirals out on any given day. It does not have to be one way, one truth, one voice. Nor does love have to be all or nothing. Neither does power. What is positive and what is negative is not absolute.

I have learned that there is no such thing as one portrait or one story, only the knowledge of our own experience shared. I no longer see America's national parks as 'our best idea,' but our evolving idea; I see our national parks as our ongoing struggle as a diverse people to create circles of reverence in a time of collective cynicism where we are wary of being moved by anything but our own clever perspective.

There is an organic difference between a system of self-sufficiency and a self sustaining system. One precludes diversity, the other necessitates it.

I love the concept of unity and diversity Ã¢â'¬Â¦ most decisions are based on a tiny difference. People say this was right and that wrong—the difference was a feather Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I keep scales wherever I am to remind me of that Ã¢â'¬Â¦ They're a symbol of my awareness of the distortion most people have of what's better and what isn't. LSR

Where do I belong? You can't belong everywhere. Or perhaps we can if we pay attention to the paths of our ancestors. Perhaps this is what it means to be American. Bloodlines originate in storylines. Some people stay in place, others move on. But if we look back far enough, we are all interconnected, interrelated, through place and race and time. *

Death does not discriminate; whether saints or sinners, in the end, all are equal.

Every person is a world to explore.

They criticize the silent ones. They criticize the talkative ones. They criticize the moderate ones. There is no one in the world who escapes criticism.

Because they have learned not to get caught in notions or representations, they do not speak as though they alone hold the truth, and they do not think that those in other traditions are going the wrong way.

The Chinese sometimes arrived poor. Some started by just selling noodles on the street. But they work hard and move up. Most, though, came with many advantages, with money and contacts or easy access to loans through their own banks and networks, but the problem is not the, the problem is that we don't have a level playing field.

variety is the spice of life, a truth which, of course, every happy marriage seems to contradict.

The purpose of those who argue for cultural diversity is to impose ideological uniformity.