Quotes About Diversity

Imagination is a gift given to us from God and each one of us use it differently.

Scrooge's ethic reflected those of writer-artist Carl Barks, who hailed "honor, honesty, [and] allowing other people to believe in their own ideas, not trying to force everyone into one form

The God of the Bible is a God who specializes in minorities and who works through remnants.

anyone who thinks one book has all the answers hasn't read enough books.

You'll never understand the way the worlds really work until you surround yourself with people from all sorts of weird backgrounds.

There are only three forms of high art: the symphony, the illustrated children's book and the board game.

We're all aliens to someone. Even among our own people, most of us still feel like complete foreigners from time to time.

Maybe the price of forgetting that even in America, even in New York City, when a man from back home is talking, you better listen closely. (Dark City Lights)

The earth is like a one-room schoolhouse in which students of different grade levels are assembled together:

I thought about how people tended to congregate in homogeneous groups, avoiding and often fearing outsiders. This was the root of prejudice and group hatreds. "We also must learn not to just go to those people whose vibrations are the same as ours." To help these other people. I could feel the spiritual truths in her words.

Se nos dan poderes intuitivos que debemos obedecer sin tratar de resistirnos. Quienes se resistan tropezarán con peligros. No se nos envía desde cada plano con poderes iguales. Algunos de nosotros poseemos poderes mayores que los otros, pues los hemos adquirido en otros tiempos. Luego, no todos somos creados iguales. Pero con el paso del tiempo llegaremos a un punto en el que todos seremos iguales.

Todos somos lo mismo; todos remamos en la misma galera. En nuestras muchas reencarnaciones, hemos sido de todas las religiones, de todas las razas. El alma no tiene raza, no tiene religión. Sólo

As the late Harvard biologist Stephen Jay Gould once memorably remarked, we humans are all descendants from the same African twig.

I'm tired of being around men all the time. I'm going to start a band called Skirt with three girls and I'll play the guitar and sing backing vocals in drag. I went window shopping when I was in New York, saw a lot of amazing dresses.

What appalled Schiller about these libraries was that they featured nothing off the beaten track: no tattered paperbacks; no evidence of distinctive personal interests; no tokens of long intellectual detours passionately explored.

The feminist girls she knew at Oberlin, her roommate among them, were the kind of people who made you feel bad for liking what you liked. Sometimes when Emily was tired or blue she liked to watch "When Harry Met Sally", or "Love Actually", or old episodes of "Friends", and at Oberlin she'd had to wait until her roommate had gone out or fallen asleep.

I am extremely gay

Maybe we are all cabinets of wonders.

Death, after all, had many shapes; everyone knew it: it was the way.

I don't believe in a country where it's more acceptable to see two men holding guns than two men holding hands.

There is an important distinction to be drawn between tolerance of homosexuality and tolerance of sex tourism.

The irony of this is that while believers and non-believers are on opposite sides where religious ideas are concerned they may also find themselves on the same side in the struggle for freedom of belief.

To be a standard shape is not all in life. To know is also important.

Frank's chromosome conquered everywhere. Peace was guaranteed. By the end of another century's ruthless intermarriage, Russia and Asia were engulfed as thoroughly as Europe, and by the same loving methods. Billions of people: one consciousness.