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Quotes About Diversity

It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.
~ Ingrid Newkirk
It's one thing when other African-Americans try to threaten my race card, but when people outside of my ethnicity have the audacity to question how 'down' I am because of the bleak, stereotypical picture pop culture has painted for me as a black woman? Unacceptable.
~ Issa Rae
When I was superintendent of Denver Public Schools, I saw the potential of some of our best and brightest students cut short, punished for the actions of others - kids who had grown up and done well in our school system, and kids who know no other home but America. This is unacceptable.
~ Michael Bennet
Game studios, developers, and major publishers need to vocally speak up against the harassment of women and say this behavior is unacceptable.
~ Anita Sarkeesian
An important part of the Internet is that it provides a space for people whose identities are socially unacceptable. If it enables someone who feels minoritised to be who they want to be, it's actually worth having other people be offensive. I'd much rather have both than have neither.
~ Nick Harkaway
Show me a university which is a hotbed of thin-skinned offence-taking, where every unacceptable idea is policed and every person who happens to hold one is hounded out of a job, and I will show you a university that isn't a university but an ideological prison camp and indoctrination centre.
~ Howard Jacobson
In Hyderabad, I suppose my height does pique people's interest, but it's not like it's unacceptable. If you are confident about what you are doing, height doesn't make a difference. You can't be perfect in everything, you know!
~ Kriti Sanon
The concept 'a bit racist' doesn't exist. There are no tolerable quantities of racism. It's unacceptable regardless of where it happens or the form that it takes.
~ Kevin-Prince Boateng
I think racism is unacceptable and should not be stood for. It is not an issue just in Italy, it is around the world.
~ Chris Smalling
It's unacceptable, not just in football or sport, but in society. It needs to be kicked out. It needs to stop and be shown as unacceptable to use racial slurs or abuse the ethnicity of players.
~ Scott Sinclair
Discrimination - in any form - is unacceptable and runs contrary to New Hampshire's Live Free or Die Spirit.
~ Chris Sununu
It is idle to await unanimity.
~ Robert Dale Owen
But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people.
~ Dan Abrams
Women want to see more women that look like themselves - they don't want to see something completely unattainable.
~ Denise Bidot
I have short hair. It doesn't make me more unattractive than a woman or my sisters that have more longer hair and a bit lighter.
~ Alek Wek
As an East Asian looking at America, I find attractive and unattractive features. I like, for example, the free, easy and open relations between people regardless of social status, ethnicity or religion.
~ Lee Kuan Yew
Watching 'Girls,' it was really angering for me at first, because I really had spent decades hiding unlikable, unattractive Jewish girls in likable, attractive, non-Jewish actors and characters.
~ Jill Soloway
I have had unattractive heroes - broken noses, scars, crooked teeth. You want to give them something that is human. My heroines struggle with being too short or fat or old. Some are older than the heroes. You try to cover all spectrums.
~ Sylvia Day
At least through most of the 1960s, I basically lived in a man's world, hardly speaking to a woman all day except to the secretaries. But I was almost totally unaware of myself as an oddity and had no comprehension of the difficulties faced by working women in our organization and elsewhere.
~ Katharine Graham
There are many ways for organisms to probe the external world. Some smell it, others listen to it, many see it. Each species, therefore, lives in its own unique sensory world of which other species may be partially or totally unaware.
~ Richard Axel
The films I enjoy seeing are those that reveal lives I was unaware of... in different cultures or whatever.
~ Jim Broadbent
I started to realize that there are a lot of people who are unaware of deaf culture, and I've been given a great platform to reframe the deaf community.
~ Nyle DiMarco
Radio is so fragmented, it's unbelievable.
~ Bob Seger
Bacteria live in unbelievable mixtures of hundreds or thousands of species. Like on your teeth. There are 600 species of bacteria on your teeth every morning.
~ Bonnie Bassler