Quotes About Diversity

I want to break the stereotype that when an actress becomes a mother, she can only do certain type of roles.

All of the original Wiggles were boys, but the girls sure loved them. In a preliteral age before 3, children don't necessarily know it's boys or girls on stage, but we tend to stereotype.

Dressing in an androgynous way, mixing up the masculine and feminine, blurring those boundaries - I'm cool with that. No one should ever be limited by stereotypes of gender, just as no one should ever be limited by stereotypes of race.

There are a lot of stereotypes to be broken which I think a lot of us are doing. What I do is, as soon as people try to pin me down to one kind of part, I'll play a very different kind of role, so it explodes that stereotype.

Other wartime leaders would do well to imitate his inquisitive approach. They should not look for consensus, and instead should examine differences between advisors, asking them for the reasons for their different views.

While problem solving is a fundamental skill we all possess, not everyone should have to solve the same problems.

Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there.

To live, it seems, is to explain, to justify, and to find coherence among diverse outcomes, characteristics, and causes.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Don't be led away to think this part of the world important and that unimportant. Every corner of the world is important. No man knows whether this part or that is most so, but every man may do some honest work in his own corner.

A final point is the fact that discrimination based on presumed inborn and immutable characteristics (race) tends to be stronger and more inflexible than ethnic discrimination which is not based on 'racial' differences. Members of a presumed race cannot change their assumed inherited traits, while ethnic groups can change their culture and, ultimately,

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.

Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry...

In the world that lies ahead, religious pluralism is going to penetrate all cultures. How we live together with different points of view is going to become more and more important. I don't know whether we can make progress in such a project without a contemplative practice that alerts us to our own biases, prejudices, and self-centered programs for happiness, especially when they trample on other people's rights and needs.

The best way to get a good idea is to get a Lot of ideas. —LINUS PAULING

A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.

More to the point, they get to make their mistakes as individuals and not as representatives of an entire race.

It was just another of those sharp shards of bigotry you find when you run your fingers across the Canadian mosaic.

Where do you begin telling someone their world is not the only one? —Lee Maracle, Ravensong

What about human beings? said the animals. Do you think we need human beings? Why not? said the Twins. And as quick as they could the right-handed Twin created women, and the left-handed Twin created men. They don't look too bright, said the animals. We hope they won't be a problem. Don't worry, said the Twins, you guys are going to get along just fine.

Our common preference as a species is for difference rather than unity. (Vive la différence. Vive la guerre.) Nobody designed us to be this way—it just happens to be how we blundered into the nightmare of being. Life preys on life, per Schopenhauer