Quotes About Diversity

What I said in Ishmael stands: There is no One Right Way to live. What we find among Leaver peoples is that each has a way that works well for them. We may not like one particular way, we may think it atrocious and cruel, but it's their way, not ours, and the most murderous culture in human history is hardly in a position to set itself up as the moral policeman of the world.

a lifestyle for creatures capable of poetry, philosophy, music, dance, mythology, art, and invention on a wide technological front.

It was laid out much like any other town—thoughtlessly, and in haste. Here is where the rich people lived, and here the workers. This is where the white people shopped, and here was the special store for the Chinese, which had everything they could ever want, as long as they didn't want that much.

For Ming Kai's nose—which, like so many Chinese organs, was advanced beyond the reckoning of his Caucasian brother—

I guess the message in the songs is that is shouldn't matter if someone moves differently, or looks differently, or talks differently. Is biotic differently. What matters is that we're all thinking beings, and if we are thinking beings we ought to be able to find common ground somewhere.

They were an odd pair- but odd pairs were what kept life interesting.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

I don't think anyone has a normal family.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

"Men are like a deck of cards. You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks."

I believe in having a more open mind and including others who don't share your faith and having dialogue with them. And just having a pure heart and being a good person can bring you closer to God. Because once you believe in one particular religion fully and not others, that requires you to start disliking people who don't share your views.

I've always kind of tried to do something that was a little different than just simple 'I love you, baby'-type songs.

I have always been intrigued by other cultures, and traveling to foreign lands has always been a part of my personal passion for learning about our world.

By including children with different learning abilities in mainstream and specialized schools, we can change attitudes and promote respect. By creating suitable jobs for adults with autism, we integrate them into society.

Learn bits and pieces from everyone.

Everything has its beauty, but not everyone see its.

No one is the same, and we all have different life experiences. It's not my place to judge them or for them to judge me. We should all be accountable for our own lives.

I try to say I love you in a million different ways. That's what I aspire to do. That's what I do best.

Love yourself, whatever makes you different, and use it to make you stand out. Mine is my voice and the fact that I'm gay: well, the fact that I'm flamboyantly gay.

The things that make me different are the things that make me me.

I have three sons, as different from each other as any three humans could be but connected by their shared love of Guitar Hero. I'm lucky to be married to a man I can call my soulmate without any irony whatsoever.

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

"In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours."

Over the summer I thought that I would seek out non-Americans as friends, just for diversity's sake. Now I find that I want to be around Americans – people who I know are thinking about our country as much as I am.