Quotes About Diversity

I don't like labels, but if you have to put a label on it, I'm a gay man.

I think it's harder for R&B to break in England because the radio and labels don't really know what to do with R&B music.

There's been enough building of fences with labels trying to categorize artists, limiting artists' ability to be themselves.

Because women get more labor rights than men, meaning they get maternity leave, the employer prefers to hire men.

Cities are, first of all, seats of the highest economic division of labor.

I like to call the Department of Labor the Department of Opportunity, and that means opportunity for everyone - no matter whom you love.

School is at once a place of hope, but it's also a laboratory that exposes our differences.

Remember the No campaign is Conservative people, Labour people, people of no party.

Because of the tax on being different, individual actors in the labour market from different backgrounds can rationally value the same opportunities differently.

Labour is the party for the many.

My only opinion on childbirth is not to have an opinion, and not to judge. We're all different and anything can happen when it comes to labour: you just don't know until you get there.

The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did.

Actually, I don't ever think there will be a men-only team of leadership in the Labour party again. People would look at it and say, 'What? Are there no women in the party to be part of the leadership? Do men want to do it all themselves?' It just won't happen again.

I'm the kind of person that when I saw a lack of African Americans in the apparel business, that was something I set out to do, and I lead by example.

It's not easy being a female in the U.K. pop industry. We've seen the white male dominance, misogyny, sexism and lack of diversity.

I have always let the lack of Indian actors in the industry drive me, not hold me back. I remember an agent in L.A. telling me a few years ago that an Indian actor wouldn't ever make it in Hollywood, but my ethnicity has helped me.

The roles I was lucky enough to get were real stretches for me: usually a character who was older, or a little weird, or whatever. And it was hard, not just for the lack of work but because you have to face up to how people are looking at you.

Diversity in the industry is very lacking, and equal opportunity comes very far and few between for people of color.

A project like Pangea, which enables us to enter in to the situations of others, imaginatively, is fulfilling what the religions call the Golden Rule... going into one's own experience, and going into other's experience, and seeing the world from another perspective that's what we desperately need in our dangerously polarized world.

There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.

Respect only has meaning as respect for those with whom I do not agree.

And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious group, an otherness that can repel us initially, but which can jerk us out of our habitual selfishness, and give us intonations of that sacred otherness, which is God.

You are all right. But you are all wrong too. For each of you touched only one part of the animal.

Historically the delusional conclusion that the diversity of forms in which humankind is created means that some bear God's likeness more than others has led to hatred and violence. Through such alienation from one another, the rest of creation, and God, we humans have failed to realize our full humanity.