Quotes About Diversity

What is a man? What is a woman? And why do we have to be one or the other?

Men like to become Christians without crossing racial, linguistic or class barriers

Every man prays in his own language.

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

Without women's full inclusion at the decision making table, we cannot have any healthy decision making that is good for men and women alike.

All the men on my staff can type.

In spite of what Thomas Jefferson wrote, all men may be created equal, but not to all women.

Les femmes et les hommes ne vivent pas sur le me" me plan. Women and men do not live according to the same design.

Negro blood is sure powerful, because just one drop of black blood makes a colored man. One drop--you are a Negro! . . . Black is powerful.

Which path do you intend to take, Nell?' said the Constable, sounding very interested. 'Conformity or rebellion?' Neither one. Both ways are simple-minded - they are only for people who cannot cope with contradiction and ambiguity.

All people have religions. It's like we have religion receptors built into our brain cells, or something, and we'll latch onto anything that'll fill that niche for us.

Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being?

Besides, interesting things happen along borders—transitions—not in the middle where everything is the same.

A few dud universes can really clutter up your basement.

while people were not genetically different, they were culturally as different as they could possibly be, and that some cultures were simply better than others.

Didn't happen anymore. Pizza delivery is a major industry. A managed industry. People went to CosaNostra Pizza University four years just to learn it. Came in its doors unable to write an English sentence, from Abkhazia, Rwanda, Guanajuato, South Jersey, and came out knowing more about pizza than a Bedouin knows about sand.

His father was a sergeant major, his mother was a Korean woman whose people had been mine slaves in Nippon, and Hiro didn't know whether he was black or Asian or just plain Army, whether he was rich or poor, educated or ignorant, talented or lucky. He didn't even have a part of the country to call home until he moved to California, which is about as specific as saying that you live in the Northern Hemisphere. In the end, it was probably his general disorientation that did them in.

From an evolution standpoint, what was the point of having people around who were not inclined to have offspring? There must be some good, and fairly subtle, reason for it. The only thing he could work out was that it was groups of people—societies—rather than individual creatures, who were now trying to out-reproduce and/or kill each other, and that, in a society, there was plenty of room for someone who didn't have kids as long as he was up to something useful.

We're like meridians, all beginning and ending in the same place. We spread out from the beginning and go our separate ways, over seas and mountains and islands and deserts, each telling our own story, as different as they could possibly be. But in the end we all converge and our ends are as much the same as our beginnings.

It didn't matter whether "football" for you was soccer or the American sport played by men in helmets.

Bolor-Erdene urged Dinah to address her as Bo. She was obviously of Far Eastern stock, and yet there was something in her eyes and cheekbones that did not look precisely Chinese. Dinah's preliminary googling had already told her that Bo was Mongolian. Yuri

the usual academician's ace in the hole: everything is relative, it's all just differing perspectives.

Their skins were different colors but they all belonged to the same ethnic group: Military.

Is it Protestant money or Catholic money you're after?" I ask. "It does not matter," he says. "Not where I come from." "Where in God's name do you come from?" I ask again. "May I go there with you? Because in the name of Our Lord's mammy, if I could be someplace where money's got no religion and religion's got no money, I'd be a happier woman.