Quotes About Diversity

The downside is that stereotypes flatten out differences within the category we are looking at and exaggerate differences between categories.

Daisy had her own criteria for judging people. On the whole, she expected to like people she met, and on the whole, she did. It seemed to her a much pleasanter way to live than to go about looking for superficial defects such as the wrong class, or a brown face, thus eliminating a lot of delightful people from one's acquaintance.

There's some who believe it's wicked, but God made us all, and if there's some he made a little different, I daresay he had a reason for it.

Was sind das für Konstellationen in der Gegenwart, in denen zufällige oder angeborene Unterschiede ausgesucht werden, um daran soziale Anerkennung oder gar Menschen- und Bürgerrechte zu koppeln?

Houve até um projeto dizendo que se o mulato tivesse o cabelo liso era considerado branco, se o cabelo fosse crespo então o mulato era considerado negro.

Stop with the labels … because we are not jam jars; we are extraordinary, different, wonderful people.

To understand those who are culturally and historically different from us – rather than resorting to such labels as 'evil empire', 'fundamentalist' and 'terrorist' to mask our ignorance – is a matter of urgency. The greatest hubris is to ask why 'they' are not like 'us', to accept our cultural biases lazily and without question, and to frame the problem in terms of 'what went wrong?

Some people on this earth receive love, get married, and honeymoon in Cabo. Others do not. Some people read alone on the sofa and some people read together, in bed. That's life.

I grew up with no religion and she had all religion. She celebrates everything and I celebrate nothing.

She says New York was like Sesame Street for grown-ups, everyone has big hearts and you can be anything you wanna be.

her accent is so thick that I feel bad for the words coming out of her mouth.

Benjamin J. Ashby the third. Oh there's three of them.

Skeçler yaz?p sirk müdürüne götürdüm. Bana, "Ne yaz?k ki zencisiniz." diye cevap verdiler. K?v?rc?k saçlar?mla, esmer tenimi ne kadar sevdiÄŸimi unutuyorlar halbuki. Hatta zencilerin saçlar?n? beyazlar?nkinden daha muntazam buluyorum. Bizim saçlar?m?z daha uysald?r, istediÄŸimiz yerde kal?r. Beyazlar?nki ise en küçük bir baÅŸ hareketinde yer deÄŸiÅŸir.

When the Marchese de Caracciolo wrote to the King of Naples that in England he had discovered a country of '22 religions and two sauces', these were not words of praise.

This country can't have me anymore. Back home I'm going to tell them about these people. These people don't flow. Each one is a separate drop of water falling into a still pool, each drop waiting for stillness before it falls.

Show your true colors. Mine is yellow. — BIG BIRD

Now tell me, Sawyer O'Donnell, are you more Irish or Hispanic?" "Half and half. Love the Mexican food but also love a good Irish whiskey on occasion. They're both really good lovers, you know. Hot-blooded and stand by their women.

From what I can see, women and girls are a rich and largely untapped goldmine--a powerhouse of blessing and gifts for the church, of strength and wisdom for our brothers, and of enormous good for the world. After all, women do hold up half the sky.

In Genesis God is multiplying the mystery of the Trinity in his image bearers by creating another individual who stands on level ground with the man and is completely different from, yet one with him. The oxygen hasn't grown thin after all. God is still vision casting--this time for male/female relationships.

Forest Gump had it wrong. Life is not a box of chocolate; it's a kaleidoscope. In the flip of a wrist, realities are shredded and the world takes on a totally new shape.

For some girls it's sexy when a guy bench-presses or throws a football, but he's slaying me with the book references.

BACK IN THE Pleistocene era when I went to vet school, female students were a rarity and not a blessed one.

There's no book that absolutely everyone loves.

We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.