Quotes About Diversity

Just because you're so different. People don't see beyond the surface and cannot understand. You were built differently. In your own uniqueness.

You don't have to settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who you are.

Being different is that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.

What's been important in my understanding of myself and others is the fact that each one of us is so much more than any one thing. It's best to accept life as it really is and not as you imagined it to be." "Have a big enough heart to love unconditionally, and a broad enough mind to embrace the differences that make each of us unique.

I have known a lady, John, who was delivered of a blackamoor child, merely from the circumstance of having got a start by the sudden entrance of her negro servant, and not being able to forget him for several hours

At the time, he and two of his classmates had been three of only eight black officers in the United States Army Air Forces. To get to that point they had had to be better than their white colleagues at every stage of the training programme.

Nothing human is alien to me." But can that be true? Surely the I that I know and treasure, the I that I present to you, is free of the darker sides of human conduct.

Another Thing I'm Sick of Hearing: If I started that gay rights group, I must be gay. So if i start an animal rights group, what does that make me? A giraffe?

Button] If Gay and Lesbian people are given civil rights, soon everyone will want them

The point is that being a minority isn't only about the color of your skin or your religion. it's about not fitting in, being on the outside.

Sin is obviously relative to the man, and not a universal attribute.

I resent violence or intolerance in any shape or form. It never reaches anything or stops anything. A revolution must come on the due installments plans. It's a patent absurdity on the face of it to hate people because they live round the corner and speak a different vernacular, so to speak.

I smiled at him. America, I said quietly, just like that. What is it? The sweepings of every country including our own. Isn't that true? That's a fact.

Natural parents should bear in mind that the more supplementaries their children find, at school or elsewhere, the better they will know that it takes all sorts to make a world. Also, that though there is always the risk of being corrupted by bad parents, the natural ones may be – probably ten per cent of them actually are – the worst of the lot.

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His Eminence Michael cardinal Logue, archbishop of Armagh, primate of all Ireland, His Grace, the most reverend Dr William Alexander, archbishop of Armagh, primate of all Ireland, the chief rabbi, the presbyterian moderator, the heads of the baptist, anabaptist, methodist and Moravian chapels and the honorary secretary of the society of friends.

O tribes! O gentes!)

Then I went to a certain nightclub. There were men there—and also women. At least, they looked like women.

resent violence or intolerance in any shape or form. It never reaches anything or stops anything. A revolution must come on the due instalments plan. It's a patent absurdity on the face of it to hate people because they live round the corner and speak another vernacular, so to speak.

This is Louisiana, Dave. Guatemala North. Quit pretending it's the United States. Life will make a lot more sense," he said.

There are those who are made different in the womb.

At a certain time in your life, you accept the fact that lunacy comes in many forms.

No, I'm a coonass, my religion is shaky, and I've never hit the juice.

The plain truth is that you'd have an easier time standing in the middle of the Mississippi River and requesting that it flow backward than to expect people of different races and backgrounds to stop loving each other, stop marrying each other, stop starting families, stop enjoying the dreams that love inspires. Love is unstoppable. It is our greatest weapon, a natural force, created by God. I