Quotes About Diversity

Besides, interesting things happen along borders—transitions—not in the middle where everything is the same. There may be something happening along the border of the crowd, back where the lights fade into the shade of the overpass.

Must you know that yours will be the "better" picture before you pick up the brush and paint? Can it not simply be another picture? Another expression of beauty? Must a rose be "better" than an iris in order to justify it's existence? I tell you this: you are all flowers in the Garden of the Gods.

If there is a person, place, or thing with which you do not agree, you attack it. If there is a religion that goes against yours, you make it wrong. If there is a thought that contradicts yours, you ridicule it. If there is an idea other than yours, you reject it. In this you err, for you create only half a universe. And you cannot even understand your half when you have rejected out of hand the other.

Difficult as it may be for some people to imagine, God does not, we repeat here for emphasis, prefer Baptists over Hindus, Catholics over Jews, Muslims over Mormons, or any religion over any other religion. God does not even prefer those who believe in God over those who do not believe in God. These are not God's ideas. These are the ideas of human beings who think that these are God's ideas.

We are all One. Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

If religions have produced conflict between people, it is not because their teachings are "wrong" but because they may be incomplete.

Because equality is sameness—and the last thing the world needs is sameness.

there is great healing in acknowledging "mine is not a better way, mine is merely another way.

We're all animals, high school is animals, but some of us are more animal than others. Like in 'Animal Farm,' which I read, all animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others? Here in the real world, all equals are created animal, but some are more animal than others.

Here in the real world, all equals are created animal, but some are more animal than others.

I mean everybody's messed up." "What's your point?" "We wear our problems differently.

her cheeks a slight Asian red;

He asked the class how many of us were taking computer science, and everybody but me and this one girl who didn't speak English raised their hands.

If a huge genetic gap separated us from our closest relative in the animal kingdom, we could justifiably celebrate our brilliance. We might be entitled to walk around thinking we're distant and distinct from our fellow creatures. But no such gap exists. Instead, we are one with the rest of nature, fitting neither above nor below, but within.

After the 9/11 attacks, when President George W. Bush, in a speech aimed at distinguishing the U.S. from the Muslim fundamentalists, said, Our God is the God who named the stars. The problem is two-thirds of all the stars that have names, have Arabic names. I don't think he knew this. This would confound the point that he was making.

The universe has never made one of anything, so why would there even be one of itself?

There's no doubt about it: more varieties of carbon-based molecules exist than all other kinds of molecules combined.

Or maybe arguing with people you disagree with takes less effort than exploring why they think differently from you.

Differences in opinion enrich the diversity of a nation, and ought to be cherished and respected in any free society, provided everyone remains free to disagree with one another and, most importantly, everyone remains open to rational arguments that could change your mind.

Astronomy, because of that peculiar history, has a fascinating legacy of early contributions by women.

most planets inhabited by intelligent observers are likely to be smaller than Earth

Allow there to be a spectrum in all that you see.

Social, political, or legislative attempts to require that everybody agree with your personal truths are ultimately dictatorships.

In life, lots of things occupy two or more classifications