Quotes About Diversity

From Myakka City, Florida, to Kennewick, Washington, the nation is dotted with thousands of all-white towns that are (or were until recently) all white on purpose.

To all the little children:- The happy ones; and sad ones; the boisterous ones and glad ones; The good ones- Yes, the good ones, too; and all the lovely bad ones.

In the Shreve High football stadium, I think of Polacks nursing long beers in Tiltonsville, And gray faces of Negroes in the blast furnace at Benwood, And the ruptured night watchman of Wheeling Steel, Dreaming of heroes.

Over the years, we have discovered that when it comes to leaving no child behind, highly gifted students are the most likely to fall through the cracks in American classrooms.

All kids—low-achievers, high-achievers, and those in the middle—deserve to have their educational needs met.

Yet in a country with one hundred types of toothpaste on supermarket shelves, schools still follow a one-size-fits-all educational model.

Children march in lockstep through grades with their age peers, regardless of their capabilities.

We first answer these questions by saying that schools should not discriminate against gifted kids.

They soon learned how difficult and hostile school can be for a child who is different.

Living in China has made me appreciate my own country, with its tiny, ethnically diverse population of unassuming donut-eaters.

It hit me that being hip was a full-time job, and I was only a part-timer. I couldn't hide forever that I liked county fairs, particularly the goat booth at the 4-H tent, or that I once spent a week with my grandmother at her house in the giant retirement community of Sun City, Arizona, and it was one of the most carefree times of my life.

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

One man's style must not be the rule of another's.

That is the case with us all, papa. One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

My style of writing is very different from yours.

I suppose there may be a hundred different ways of being in love.

We have not all, you know, the same tenderness of disposition…

We must allow difference of taste.

Let him have all the perfections in the world, I think it ought not to be set down as certain that a man must be acceptable to every woman he may happen to like himself.

Jedna po?owa ludzi na ?wiecie nie potrafi zrozumie?, dlaczego drugiej po?owie co? sprawia przyjemno??.

At any rate, it is safer to leave people to their own devices on such subjects. Everybody likes to go their own way—to choose their own time and manner of devotion

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, (or smiling) of something else.

There is no disputing about taste.

One man's way may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.