Quotes About Diversity

But what the Reb had said resonated, that you can embrace your own faith's authenticity and still accept that others believe in something else.

Soon we had tumbled into a most fundamental debate. How can different religions coexist?

Most religions warn against war, yet more wars have been fought over religion than perhaps anything else.

A deckhand, a haircutter, and a cook. Really useful out here.

I'm not defending their views . I'm defending their right to have their views. There's a difference.

You knew you were an Arab if your ride form the airport was two dozen people.

If differences can be hidden, perhaps they aren't differences at all.

In a subway car, my skin would typically fall in the middle of the color spectrum. On street corners, tourists would ask me for directions. I was, in four and a half years, never an American; I was immediately a New Yorker.

A country should be judged by how it treats its minorities. To the extent it protect them, it stands for the ennobling values of empathy and compassion, for justice rooted, not in might, but in human equality, and for civilization instead of savagery.

like Pakistan, America is, after all, a former English colony...

Lahore, the second largest city of Pakistan, ancient capital of the Punjab, home to nearly as many people as New York, layered like a sedimentary plain with the accreted history of invaders from the Aryans to the Mongols to the British.

for personalities are not a single immutable colour, like white or blue, but rather illuminated screens, and the shades we reflect depend much on what is around us.

All sorts of strange people were around, people who looked more at home than she was, even the homeless ones who spoke no English, more at home maybe because they were younger, and when she went out it seemed to her that she too had migrated, that everyone migrates, even if we stay in the same houses our whole lives, because we can't help it. We are all migrants through time.

Our civilizations do not cause us to clash. No, our clashing allows us to pretend we belong to civilizations.

What distinguishes the "war on terror" is that it is a war against a concept, not a nation. And the enemy concept, it seems to me, is pluralism.

The most important thing to keep in mind is not that we are all the same, but that we are all equally weird.

The blast wave that passed through my sister's office doubtless passed through devout Muslims, atheist Muslims, gay Muslims, funny Muslims, and lovestruck Muslims—not to mention Pakistani Christians, Chinese engineers, American security contractors, and Indian Sikhs. What civilization, then, did the bomb target? And from what civilization did it originate?

and all sorts of strange people were around, people who looked more at home than she was, even the homeless ones who spoke no English, more at home maybe because they were younger, and when she went out it seemed to her that she too had migrated, that everyone migrates, even if we stay in the same houses our whole lives, because we can't help it. We are all migrants through time.

If differences can be hidden, perhaps there aren't differences at all

Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.

Islamophobia, in all its guises, seeks to minimize the importance of the individual and maximize the importance of the group.

and the more he looked the less white he seemed, as though looking for his whiteness was the opposite of whiteness, was driving it further away, making him seem desperate

But then around her she saw all these people of all these different colors in all these different attires and she was relieved, better here than there she thought, and it occurred to her that she had been stifled in the place of her birth for virtually her entire life, that its time for her had passed and a new time was here.

Le personalità non hanno un unico immutabile colore, come il bianco o il blu, ma sono come schermi illuminati, e le sfumature che proiettiamo dipendono da ciò che ci circonda