Quotes About Diversity

La s?n?tatea moral? È™i intelectual? a unui om contribuie mult leg?turile de camaraderie cu oameni deosebiÈ›i de el, pe care nu-i prea intereseaz? È›elurile lui È™i care îl oblig? s? fac? un efort mintal pentru a le aprecia aptitudinile È™i sfera de preocup?ri.

Men's minds are as variant as their faces," he wrote. "Liberality and charity . . . ought to govern in all disputes about matters of importance." On the other hand, "clamor and misrepresentation . . . only serve to foment the passions, without enlightening the understanding.

The rides are different for everyone. I'm convinced of that now. I mean, sure, there are some we ride together. Either we find ourselves drawn to some common experience, or maybe we're pulled in by the people we care about. Our friends, our families can drag us onto coasters and Tilt-A-Whirls that are really meant for them. But in the end, no matter whose rides we find ourselves on, the experience is all our own.

Sometimes we make our alliances not by the shape and color of our flesh but by the convictions of our heart.

the Statue of Liberty's got this invitation: 'Give me your tired, your poor, your reeking homeless--' 'Huddled masses,' said Ira. 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.' ... Okay, fine. So like everybody in the old countries says, 'Hey, I'm a huddled mass,' and they all wanna come over.

The homes here are almost identical, but not quite, full of people almost identical, but not quite.

We're this big melting pot, but someone turned up the heat too high, and the stew started to burn. Gangs, crime, fights, and fear are now a regular part of our local stew.

And then there's Texas.

Sometimes prejudice can be slapped upside the head by tolerance.

We learn many things, from many people as opposed to your world, where you're taught all the same things, by the same people.

All children in Madagascar were raised genderless and forbidden to choose a gender until reaching adulthood. Even then, many didn't choose a single state of being. Some, like Jerico, found fluidity to be their nature. "I feel like a woman beneath the sun and the stars. I feel like a man under the cover of clouds," Jerico had explained to the crew when assuming command. "A simple glance at the skies will let you know how to address me at any given time.

Year of the Capybara.

The girl in green seemed mildly PanAsian

We are imperfect beings, Munira said, How could we ever fit in a perfect world?

We can't make you do anything," said one of the scythes she didn't know, a woman in violet with PanAsian leanings.

The index is supposed to keep the world free from cultural and genetic bias, but aren't there underlying factors that we can't escape? For instance, who decided that the first number of one's genetic index would be Caucasoid? —From the gleaning journal of H.S. Curie

You must find us binary people strange and confusing." "I did when I was younger. I never met someone born to a single gender until I was well into my teens. But I've come to accept, and even appreciate, your quirky rigidity.

Some things simply made a person feel feminine; other things made a person feel masculine. Wasn't that true of everyone regardless of gender? Or did binaries deny themselves the things that didn't fit the mold?

From the city of Caracas

for me obedience to another is the decay of self. for though every being is similar each being is different and to herd our differences under one law degrades each self.

the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy.

I have met free man in the strangest of places and at ALL ages.

the strays keep arriving: now we have 5 cats and they are tenuous, flighty, con- ceited, naturally bright and awesomely beautiful.         one

The trouble is that there are too many Chinks. When you kill a Chink he splits in half and becomes two Chinks.