Quotes About Diversity

I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.

he doesn't approve but will deal with it later, "is that what they're doing? Asking for handouts?" "They just want to be treated fairly," a kid in the back says. "But what does that mean? And where does it end?" another kid asks. As others join the conversation, Megan turns in her seat and squints at Molly, as if noticing her for the first time. "An Indian, huh. That's cool," she whispers. "Like Molly Molasses, right?

Luego un patán mexicano le hizo un bombo, y mírala ahora, es criada. —Él era dominicano —murmura Molly. —Da lo mismo. Esos ilegales son todos iguales, ¿no? Molly

A fair and just society offers equality of opportunity to all. But it cannot promise, and should not try to enforce, sameness.

The very fabric of our world is dependent for its existence upon the subtle and varied harmonies created by all living things. In the micro cosm of nature, loss of one sound results in dissonance, which activates in us a yearning for harmony.

one could find plenty of intelligent women in the world if one were willing to look.

Njëshi nuk është i barabartë me një, kur na duhet të sillemi në një mënyrë të caktuar.

we wouldn't offer our child just one kind of book if we wanted him to become an avid reader: we can learn how to do the same with food.

I was never an absolute male and I shall never be an absolute female. But whatever the value of percentages in the scale of sex determinants, there are no absolutes; even the most masculine or feminine person approximates only eighty percent of the possible total. There is no one hundred percent Adam or Eve.

When the First Lady is a he--and the President is me It's a switch--it's a twist--it's a change Still these things would shock most people But I don't really know why, For the world is full of changes--who knows this more than I!

Today there are about six thousand languages in the world, and half of the world's population speaks only ten of them. English is the single most dominant of these ten.

Most curious is the way that Y/surname patterns differ between countries. In Britain, on average, a man who has the same surname as another is significantly more likely to have a similar Y chromosome, and therefore a common ancestor, than he would with someone of a different surname. But there's a twist: The Y similarity depends on the frequency of the surname within the population. If you are a Smith, for example, the rule does not apply.

The world loses one of its six thousand languages every two weeks, and children have stopped learning half of the languages currently spoken in the world. It's been argued that languages are under greater threat than any endangered bird or mammal.

Judged by single nucleotides polymorphisms (or SNP) in DNA, the difference between people and chimpanzees is 1.23 percent, compared to around 0.1 percent difference in SNPs between two randomly picked humans.

You're both treated fairly," she said, "but sometimes people require different things for true fairness.

You see, that's what's so odd, how everyone thinks they're normal and the truth is no one in the world is normal at all. Isn't that wonderful?

Dutton, the home of Winnie the Pooh, would find a second identity as a home for gay fiction.

Women might just have something to contribute to civilization other than their vaginas".

Algunas veces se ha dicho que el acentuar el carácter cristiano de la cultura occidental nos vuelve ciegos a los valores de otras civilizaciones. Por mi parte, considero que sucede todo lo contrario. En efecto, mientras más entendamos el cristianismo, mejor entenderemos el Islam, y mientras más subestimemos el elemento religioso en nuestra propia cultura, menos apreciaremos las culturas del mundo no europeo.

How many anarchists once they have read an anti-authoritarian account of some historical episode actually go and read accounts from other perspectives?

There are more than nine hundred species of bats, a figure that represents almost a quarter of all mammal species on earth,

Every American deserves to live in freedom, to have his or her privacy respected and a chance to go as far as their ability and effort will take them - regardless of race, gender, ethnicity or economic circumstances.

Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.

Men are strange. It's almost unexpected to find they speak English.