Quotes About Diversity

There's no such thing as an absolute openness. Openness is relative, I think, in all societies.

Schools connect children to their communities. Jobs connect adults to their societies. Persons with autism deserve to walk the same path.

When I speak about 'we,' it gets very complex very quickly. Having grown up in the United States, but also being very much a member of Nigerian societies and also different parts of Nigerian societies, I understand that we construct particular 'we's.'

I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.

Parallel societies are exactly that: They exist side by side and rarely meet.

Societies are being interconnected and we have to adjust to that fact.

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.

We live in a diverse society - in fact, a diverse world - and we must learn to live in peace and with respect for each other.

Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.

Anti-Semitism is not just a problem for Jews; it is a problem for all of our society.

Any society where it's a crime or a hassle to be different is a society based on psychological fascism.

I'm just being myself, honestly. I know society puts it, Oh, this is masculine and this is feminine. I don't put myself in categories.

In any society, fanatics who hate don't hate only me - they hate you, too. They hate everybody.

I've gotten scholarships from the Asian-American Directors Guild of America society and things like that, and those things helped me, even if I didn't realize how much.

The mission of the Ruby Bridges Foundation is to create educational opportunities like science camp that allow children from different racial, cultural, and socio-economic backgrounds to build lasting relationships.

We said in our 21st Century Party paper there are 61 mosaic groups, which the market research people use as different socio-economic categories and half of our members come from just five of those groups and that is very narrow - too narrow.

Look, nobody is born with a sociology degree, and no one can understand all perspectives. Nobody's going to get it all from the very start. But the Internet at least allows everyone to hear these perspectives at a much faster rate than if we had to do it without it.

I love seeing what people are eating. It's a great way of looking at what is similar and what is different about people. It's sociology and anthropology and history rolled into one.

Go to American Apparel; they have all of the colors of socks.

As an actor, the joy lies in being able to play roles that you are not. If I get a chance to play a sofa or alien, I would love it.

The roots of India's soft power run deep. India's is a civilization that, over millennia, has offered refuge and, more importantly, religious and cultural freedom, to Jews, Parsis, several varieties of Christians, and Muslims.

One disco, one soft ball game, one lost love, one gay pride rally at a time.

No human quality belongs to only one class of person. We all get to be both aggressive and loving. We all get to delight in our careers and revel in our children. We're all kind and brave, soft and hard, sciency and artsy, interested in being looked at and in admiring others' physical form. Everything.