Quotes About Diversity

Everyone up here had two stories: the life before and the life now. If you wanted to pray to a weirdo god or live in a school bus or marry a goose, no one in Alaska was going to say crap to you.

Folks who are from the wrong place, or have the wrong color skin, or speak the wrong language, or pray to the wrong God.

But, it was a lie. For people like us, anyway. Folks who are from the wrong place, or have the wrong color skin, or speak the wrong language, or pray to the wrong God.

Jews. Communists. Homosexuals. Freemasons. Jehovah's Witnesses. Do you know these people?

I don't know the right thing to do anymore. I want to protect Sophie and keep her safe, but what good is safety if she has to grow up in a world where people disappear without a trace because they pray to a different God?

the wrong skin color. Sadly, that ugliness was a part of life

You can't judge a person by their language or their place of origin—though it seems that each new generation insists upon learning that lesson for itself.

Yes, I am Jewish," she says. "But I am also Catholic." She pauses and adds, "And Muslim too." ... "It is all the same, is it not? It is mankind that creates the differences. That does not mean it is not all the same God.

But the forest knew no difference when it came to race, religion, or gender; it smiled and frowned upon all of them in equal measure,

And isn't that the moral of the story anyhow? You can't judge a person by their language or their place of origin—though it seems that each new generation insists upon learning that lesson for itself.

But the forest knew no difference when it came to race, religion, or gender; it smiled and frowned upon all of them in equal measure, sometimes providing protection, sometimes peril. "By the grace of God, may we all be vanishing stars.

Sì, sono ebrea», dichiara. «ma sono anche cattolica.» Dopo una breve pausa aggiunge: «E anche musulmana». «Mamie, cosa vuoi dire?» domando, tentando di impedire alla mia voce di tremare. «Non sei musulmana.» «Non è la stessa cosa? È l'umanità a creare le differenze. Ma questo non significa che non sia sempre lo stesso Dio.»

Her mother lived in a world of black and white, and Eva knew that neither of those colors existed, not really; it was all a spectrum of gray.

Do you think God speaks Arabic or Hebrew? Can he hear your prayers or mine?"... "I do not know." "What do you think, Nabi?" The boy thought about this for a long time before replying. "I think God must speak all the languages." His tone was confident. "I think he can heal all of us.

We are not so different then."... "I never understood the war between our religions, or the war with Christianity. If there is one thing I learned from the time young Rose spent with us, it is that we are all speaking to the same God. It is not religion that divides man. It is good and evil here on earth that divides us.

You're not Jewish." "No, I'm Catholic. And in the end, Catholicism isn't really so different. Believing in God is at the core of our faith, just like yours,

Vy na samom dele ne russkaya, ne tak li?

I never understood the discord between our religions. If there is one thing I learned from the time young Rose spent with us, it is that we are all speaking to the same God. It is not religion that divides man. It is good and evil here on earth that separates us.

It is mankind that creates the differences, she'd told me last week. That does not mean it is not all the same God.

being Jewish is something to be proud of, not something to be ashamed of." "Then why do my classmates mock me?" Charlotte could see him flinch, but he answered calmly. "Because they are ignorant. And cruelty is the weapon of the ignorant.

But God believes in you, my dear," Sister Maria Andrzeja replied immediately. She looked up and held Yona's gaze. "And that makes us all the same, all over the world.

I never understood the war between our religions, or the war with Christianity. If there is one thing I learned from the time young Rose spent with us, it is that we are all speaking to the same God. It is not religion that divides man. It is good and evil here on earth that divides us.

Everyone ignores two important facts: one person's crap is another person's beloved book, and publishing has always produced books in great volume.

Listening to classical music is like reading philosophy books, not everybody has to do it. Music is not for everybody.