Quotes About Diversity

Linkeree does what he likes. He likes to be alone and think his own thoughts. No one is hurt by it.» Sara said, «Jason said that we are one people. Linkeree is saying he does not want to be part of us, and if he is not part of us then we are all less than we were.» They were both very wise. It would be so much easier for Kapock if they had only agreed with each other.

What an unfriendly country," said Noxon. "Different time, different place," said Wheaton. "We think we're a very welcoming country. Generous and kind. Unless we don't like your language or the way you look.

Most scientists believe in God," said Sel. "Certainly most of us here.

The illusion of comprehension allowed people to think they were more alike than they really were. Maybe language was better.

Wang-mu was surprised to hear Peter sound so oriental. The American way was to make excuses, to stay and argue.

idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who arose from other evolutionary paths

With gay marriage, the last shreds of meaning will be stripped away from marriage, with homosexuals finishing what faithless, selfish heterosexuals have begun.

Don't ever ask questions that can only be answered one way, no matter what the truthful answer might be.

Do the gods of different nations

Individually, human beings are all dolts.>

Maybe we only thought we were different from each other out of jealousy

It was better, she thought, to be able to select from the whole menu of human achievements than to be bound within one narrow range.

All boys? A few girls. They don't often pass the test to get in. Too many centuries of evolution are working against them.

You're Greek and I'm Armenian. Of course we need to raise our children to speak Portuguese.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

It's absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

She's always thought that one of the beauties of New York is that you can be from anywhere and within moments of landing it is yours.

Known to Israelis as the city of Akko. Known to Palestinians still as Akka. Known beyond Israel and Palestine as Acre: a mosaic town with a low skyline of mosque and flat roof and synagogue, a town of bells and loudspeakers and muezzin calls, where the warm-water wind retreats the tongue and sneaks multiple sounds into the throat: Acre, Akko, Akka.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

All people are the same; only their habits differ.

Segmentation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.

The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.

We're like the Comanches was two hundred years ago. We don't know what's goin to show up here come daylight. We don't even know what color they'll be.