Quotes About Diversity

qué humanista no desea minimizar la discrepancia entre los seres humanos?

I suspect that there would be a species for which our ethical rules would be relaxed or possibly lifted.

mostly cosmetic variations

it seems that we notice differences between versions rather than commonalities.

More than a third of the residents in London are foreign-born, and, in addition to immigrants

Simply, do not be narrow-minded.

Decentralization reduces large structural asymmetries.

regardless of their levels of sophistication and learning.

Frédéric Dard, Libanius Antiochus, Michael Oakeshott, John Gray, Ammianus Marcellinus, Ibn Battuta, Saadia Gaon, or Joseph de Maistre; he

They also serve the interest of other groups.

would not have been strongly drawn to such pursuits anyway.

Avoid optimization; learn to love redundancy.

Alberto andava dietro alle sartine; andava dietro, però, anche alle ragazze di buona famiglia. Andava dietro a tutte le ragazze, gli piacevano tutte; e siccome era allegro e gentile, corteggiava, per allegria e gentilezza, anche quelle che non gli piacevano.

My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.

In every family, at some point, there must be someone who feels like an outsider: the one always standing or sitting a little farther from the group in pictures; the older sibling when a new baby comes along; the child from a previous marriage, sometimes with a different last name. Suddenly, I was all of those.

Numbers constitute the only universal language.

Each person has a unique mixture of intelligences, or ways of understanding the world—linguistic, logical, mathematical, spatial, musical, physical

Also, each person has a different learning style. Some may respond best to visual information, others to language (lectures, reading), others must touch or engage the physical world for things to make sense.

If differences are accepted, self-esteem can grow.

what we see is no longer "management" and "workers" but an integration of specialists. Each of these specialists has knowledge and expertise not possessed by the others in the organization.

Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth.

Cannot you conceive that another man may wish well to the world and struggle for its good on some other plan than precisely that which you have laid down?

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and habilities he must go out of himself to appreciate. The accidents in my life have often afforded me this advantage, but never with more fulness and variety than during my continuance in office.

Es de gran importancia para la salud moral e intelectual de un hombre tener por compañeros otros hombres distintos a él, que no se interesen por sus ocupaciones, y que para conocer sus capacidades y saber en qué círculos se mueven le sea preciso salirse de sí mismo.