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Quotes About Diversity

Any player playing at a high level is available for consideration to the women's national team.
~ Jill Ellis
There has never been even a hint of an expression of racism in the national team.
~ Joachim Low
Independence did not mean chauvinism and narrow nationalism.
~ Said Musa
I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things.
~ Peter Singer
Let's be cautious about narrow nationalism.
~ James A. Forbes
White nationalism is about keeping power white. Yes, yes, there are minority groups represented among Justin Trudeau's ministers, but they were all given jobs by a white guy.
~ Neil Macdonald
Just because I believe in the identity and integrity of my country doesn't make a xenophobe or a nationalist.
~ Emir Kusturica
It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist.
~ Edward Sapir
I read every one of the books on the shelf marked American Negro Literature. I became a nationalist, a colour nationalist, through the writings of men and women who lived a world away from me.
~ Peter Abrahams
Some people don't understand that football is universal. It doesn't have a race or nationality. It's one group of people.
~ Roberto Carlos
We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
~ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
I think I should be described as 'bi' - not bisexual, because I'm not - I'm gay - but 'binational' because I retain British nationality, and I add to it being Australian, which is like having your cake and eating it.
~ Miriam Margolyes
Authors have a nationality; books do not.
~ Leila Slimani
I feel very comfortable in New York, in a city where there is no such thing as 'nationality.'
~ Bernard Tschumi
I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
~ Maajid Nawaz
Everybody, be they female, whatever your religion, whatever your nationality, you're an individual, and if you perform well, we want you, and if you don't, we don't.
~ Gerry Harvey
The world of classical music is so fascinating. It's a world that encompasses people from everywhere and erases the basic restraints of nationality; everyone is united by this common language of music.
~ Gael Garcia Bernal
I feel totally French - I don't feel half-French because of my dual nationality. For me, dual nationality just means I don't deny my roots.
~ Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
It's weird to try and identify a nationality for a film.
~ Yorgos Lanthimos
I really, really loved Fair Isle. I'd always wanted to go there. It's so beautiful and a very small but very international community. Every nationality that you can imagine have settled there.
~ Ben Fogle
Because of the Internet, chess is not about your nationality or your background. Anyone can get good now.
~ Hikaru Nakamura
Nations have their ego, just like individuals.
~ James Joyce
Scotland should be nothing less than equal with all the other nations of the world.
~ Sean Connery
People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations are like people and act the same way.
~ George Aiken