Quotes About Diversity

All the same, all different. What was it?

Magellan came across Arabs in the Spanish hemisphere, he was to treat them well

who distinguished themselves as scientists, artisans, merchants, scholars

varied as religion, writing, mathematics, music and dance, horsemanship, martial arts, and

Less glamorous but equally necessary fields of specialization included carpenters, caulkers, and coopers.

Magellan led a fleet of five little ships and 258 sailors from a variety of nations

We are becoming universal humans.

Like steps of a staircase, and notes on a piano, each part MUST be present for the whole to function properly. Just because one plane vibrates at a lower frequency than another plane, the former is not inferior to the latter. Bass tones vibrate at a lower frequency than treble tones, yet both tones are essential to the total effect of the music.

All is one, but the all is also the many.

I am every wo/man. Every wo/man is me. So each of us partakes of the reality of everyone else.

There are multitudes of gold jewelry in the world, but there is only one substance 'Gold'. All the gold jewelry comes from this one substance, the jewelry takes many forms and shapes, but they all arise out of this one substance - gold.

We don't so much have LEVELS as ASPECTS. It might be a lot more healthy to think of ourselves as having various aspects rather than hierarchies of levels.

The observer is one and the mirrors are many.

Men should be judged, not by their tint of skin, the Gods they serve, the Vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, But by the quality of the thought they think.

Aristotle's axiom: The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

In any economic or political crisis, one thing is certain. Many learned experts will prescribe many different remedies

As Joe recalled, Dingell didn't know who the freshman Congressman was. "You like clean air up there?" Dingell asked when he learned the young man was from Boston. Joe nodded in the affirmative. "Well, I'm from Detroit and I don't, and there's no chance you'll ever get on that committee." That

This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.

An English man does not travel to see English men.

In contrast to nearly all European teams—the Dutch team has at times been the notable exception—the French team is and has long been a remarkably diverse group. It is a global team, a kind of transcultural republic

I don't like [to] make a woman ... an abstract concept of the fashion. I don't like [to] say, "You must wear that." ... I am not a dictator.

But liking someone whose species you dislike is something--worth more than currency on a chit.

There's no entrance exam. If you say you're a geek, you are a geek.

It makes me sad that not every book is good,' I said. 'Not every book can be loved.' 'But when I pull a book off a shelf, and examine it, turning it this way and that, inspecting the cover, flipping through the pages and glancing at the words as they flash by, a thought here and a sentence there and I know that there is potential between those pages for love. Even if in my opinion the book is bad, someone else may find it good. Isn't that like love?