Quotes About Diversity

Clergy are men as well as other folks.

Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.

The world needs all types of minds.

DIFFERENT NOT LESS

Sometimes you have to go outside your field of study to find the right people.

I delved especially into black writers. Their analogies were relevant to my own experiences, and I understood them better for that.

At the ATM they ask if you'd like to conduct your business in English or Spanish. I suggest you try Spanish, because your account balance will look much better in pesos.

So many men, so many opinions

I am a man: nothing human is alien to me.

So many men, so many opinions; every one his own way.

I am a man: I hold that nothing human is alien to me.

So many men so many questions.

So many men so many questions. (Quot Homines Tot Sententiae)

I once ran across a list of nearly 400 winds from around the world and wondered why Wyoming, so dominated by wind, has so few names for its variations. . . . There's the wind, the damned wind, and the goddamned wind.

there is no reason why we should expect everyone else to travel by our own road, and

He was a meteor. Harriet was more of a mountain. In this world, we need both.

live in the United States.

The 'Declaration of Independence' begins: 'All men are created equal'. What they really meant was 'All men are created equal – unless they happen to be Indian, black or female'!)

The Egyptians treated her like a pharaoh even though she was from a Greek family and a woman. She worshipped the gods of Egypt.

For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.

Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone's different needs.

If we are inspired only by literature that reflects our own interests, all reading becomes a form of narcissism.

Conversation itself has rules, which is why the conversationalist who insists that others must speak his language is a boor. To have a voice of one's own is to acknowledge other voices.

A European says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with me? An American says: I can't understand this, what's wrong with him? I make no suggestion that one side or other is right, but observation over many years leads me to believe it is true.