Quotes About Diversity

Women's strength, women's industry, women's wisdom are humankind's greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this resource can be effectively tapped in ways that benefit us all.

How any government could promote the Vardy academies in the North-East of England is absolutely beyond me. Tony Blair defends them on grounds of diversity, but it should be unthinkable in the 21st century to have a school whose head of science believes the world is less than 10,000 years old.

When I was growing up, Asians were so few and far between as to be almost invisible. And so the idea of an Asian American movement or an Asian American thrust in this country was unthinkable.

I know from first-hand experience that separating transgender students from their peers can cause many to leave school, hide who they are, or even do the unthinkable.

When the world's moving towards being the most inclusive it's ever been, it's unthinkable that certain basic aspects of life are still so unfair for the black community.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

My mother is black, from Grenada, so my blackness was always there, but It wasn't until I started hanging with the upperclassmen black actors at my high school that I really got my roots in being a black American, which is a distinctly different identity and experience.

Growing up, there wasn't an exact Hispanic role model that I had. I didn't realize how big a difference I was making, going to the Olympics and being Hispanic, until I would be in an autograph session, and parents would come up to me and say, 'You know, our family is so proud of you, you're really doing Hispanics proud.'

I am absolutely opposed to political correctness. You cannot confront hate speech until you've experienced it. You need to hear every side of the issue instead of just one.

The Irish fought the Italians until they started marrying them. And then they both fought the Jews until they started marrying them.

No country can be an island unto itself or world unto itself. Not even the biggest country.

I think of L.A. as truly the melting pot. It's basically a mini-country unto itself.

The United States is a world unto itself. We have mountains, we have deserts, we have a river that equals the Yangtze River, that equals the Nile. We have the greatest cities in the world - among the greatest cities in the world.

Every Dirty Projectors album is a world unto itself.

There are stories to be told that are still untold and characters to be portrayed that haven't been portrayed correctly. So there's work to be done.

No one can be considered untouchable on political grounds.

That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.

I'm a brown-skinned Indian immigrant, low-caste untouchable - I don't know how many labels you want to put on me - who's fought all his life.

Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices.

India has so much to offer in terms of raw untouched beauty.

A lot of subjects are untouched by the Indian Television.

It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.

If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something.

I feel disheartened when I see stereotypes, because it's untrue and unfair. It just raises the level of inequality.