Quotes About Diversity

There is nothing morally superior about wanting to live on a farm, in a city apartment, or in a house in the suburbs.

The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.

My granddad used to say, "If everybody liked the same thing, they'd all be after your grandma."

Strangely enough, when the Sugababes' 'Freak Like Me' went to number 1, which was built around my 'Are 'Friends' Electric' song, I had another song called 'Rip' go to number 1 in the Kerrang TV chart, so I was pulling new people in from very different areas of musical interest. That was quite an amazing week.

Why do people choose to adulterate fine wines, beers, and spirits? For variety's sake. It's the very spice of life.

An anthology of quotations is a museum of utterances.

Let's see if I can write about something other than my heart.

Whether a person is a male or female, a nurse is a nurse.

The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.

Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom of one man seems nonsense to another.

1978, Hawaiian has had official standing as a state language. So in this edition of Shoal of Time, published in 2015, Hawaiian words are not italicized.

the pristine virtue of the Roman Republic, asked Representative James G. Donovan of New York, when it started to take in "the senator from Scythia, the senator from Mesopotamia, the senator from Egypt, the senator from Spain, the senators from Gaul; yes, even the senators from England?" What happened to "Roman Culture? What happened to Roman unity? What happened to all the old-fashioned Roman morals and Roman integrity?

Now we are all haoles.

Daniel K. Inouye, who lost an arm fighting with the 442nd Regiment in Europe, became the first American of Japanese ancestry to win a seat in the House. Inouye

Glissant: "For me, the arrival is the moment where all the components of humanity – not just the African ones – consent to the idea that it is possible to be one and multiple at the same time; that you can be yourself and the Other; that you can be the Same and the Different. When that battle ... is won, a great many accidents in human history ... will be abolished.

A few said they'd be horses. Most said they'd be some sort of cat. My friend said she'd like to come back as a porcupine. I don't like crowds, she said.

As a committed Christian, I have always struggled with locked doors—doors by which we on the inside lock out "the others"—Jews, Muslims, Mormons, liberals, doubters, agnostics, gay folks, whomever. The more we insiders succeed in shutting others out, the more I tend to feel locked in, caged, trapped.

What if the Christian faith is supposed to exist in a variety of forms rather than just one imperial one? What if it is both more stable and more agile—more responsive to the Holy Spirit—when it exists in these many forms? And what if, instead of arguing about which form is correct and legitimate, we were to honor, appreciate, and validate one another and see ourselves as servants of one grander mission, apostles of one greater message, seekers on one ultimate quest?

when theologians read the Bible through the lens of the Exodus narrative, they are called "liberation theologians," but their counterparts who read it through the Greco-Roman narrative are never labeled "domination theologians" or "colonization theologians." Similarly, we have "black theology" and "feminist theology," but Greco-Roman orthodoxy is never called "white theology" or "male theology.

It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.

I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.

Mankind was supposed to multiply and fill the earth. But instead they had congregated in this city of Babylon to become one in evil. But the separation of languages would create a dispersion, a massive separation between peoples. It would divide them and spread them abroad over the face of the earth. Diversity would bring chaos and separation. But in a strange way, it would save the world from spiraling into a singularity of unstoppable evil.

stereotypes are such dangerous stuff; they narrow your frame of mind, and shape your reference and behavior.

As one of the documents from a worldwide gathering of Dominicans states, "Dialogue is…a necessary mode of existence in a world of difference."8 Only through dialogue can we glimpse the beauty and deep insights of the world's spiritual traditions.