Quotes About Diversity

the book has survived the same human disaster over and over again. Think about it. You've got a society where people tolerate difference, like Spain in the Convivencia, and everything's humming along: creative, prosperous. Then somehow this fear, this hate, this need to demonize 'the other'--it just sort of rears up and smashes the whole society. Inquisition, Nazis, extremist Serb nationalists...same old, same old.

While I would champion any campaign to support Muslim women who do not wish to cover. I would now also protest vigorously for the right of a woman to wear that covering, if it is what she wants and believes in. Ayatollah Khomeini and Jacques Chirac have much more in common than either of them would care to acknowledge. Each tried to solve overarching social problems by imposing his will on the bodies of women.

Raz was one of those vanguard human beings of indeterminate ethnicity, the magnificent mutts that I hope we are all destined to become given another millennium of intermixing. His skin was a rich pecan color from his dad, who was part African American and part native Hawaiian. His hair, straight and glossy black, and the almond shape of his eyes came from his Japanese grandmother. But their color was the cool blue he'd inherited from his mum, a Swedish windsurfing champion.

I always felt from the beginning that you had to defend people you disliked and feared as well as those you admired.

Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth.

Send these, the homeless, tempest toss'd, to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.

The greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong.

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

One hears about life all the time from different people with very different narrative gifts.

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.

London is a roost, for every bird.

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

Breathes there a man with hide so tough Who says two sexes aren't enough?

Men's men: be they gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.

Every man in the world is better than someone else, and not as good as someone else.

It is always the minorities that hold the key of progess; it is always through those who are unafraid to be different that advance comes to human society.

A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.

Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.

The nail that sticks out is hammered down.

This world is white no longer, and it will never be white again.

In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces.

So many men, so many opinions.

Three Spaniards, four opinions.