Quotes About Diversity

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.

The information I got from one person often contradicted the version I heard from another, so I'd long ago gotten into the habit of trying to hear as many different stories as I could and averaging them all out.

George Armstrong Custer

If life, by some chance, happens to have originated, and survived, elsewhere in the universe, it will have had time to explore an unfathomable diversity of forms. Those best able to survive the passage of time, adapt to changing environments, and migrate across interstellar distances will become the most widespread. A life form that assumes digital representation, for all or part of its life cycle, will be able to travel at the speed of light.

Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste of humanity.

People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good.

No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog; they're the best for everyday.

I hate all white men, but I hate you less than any white man I have ever known.

TOPSY: My power is in my . . . EVERYBODY: madness! TOPSY: And my colored contradictions

If there are Muslims who believe that they've got to kill Christians to make a way for the Islamic faith in the West, not only would they be disappointed, but it will lead to conflict, there's no doubt about that.

Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it.

Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.

God bless… Chocolate City… and its vanilla suburbs.

It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.

At some point in our lifetime, gay marriage won't be an issue, and everyone who stood against this civil right will look as outdated as George Wallace standing on the school steps keeping James Hood from entering the University of Alabama because he was black.

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable.

Palestine must ultimately become a state which guards the rights and interests of Moslems, Jews and Christians alike."56

Many forms, sizes and colors, I think there are heroes in sports, in life... It would be cliche to say my dad, my granddad. I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.

We may say that there is a Jewish Pentecost, a Samaritan Pentecost, and a Gentile Pentecost.10

The baptism with the Spirit is the act of the Holy Spirit joining together into a spiritual unity people of diverse racial extractions and diverse social backgrounds so that they form the body of Christ — the ekkl?sia.

we need to accept and welcome the fact that the church has not been given a single "authorized biography" of Jesus but four canonical Gospels, related and yet different, as complementary witnesses to the truth about Jesus. To do justice to such a revelation, it is important that we listen to each witness individually as well as to all together.