Quotes About Diversity

visiting merchant RainWings or MudWings were sequestered from the NightWings instead of being invited to their parties and festivals.

Hardly a NightWing at all

Blue couldn't imagine that was true. Blue cared about all of them: every dragon he'd ever spoken to and all the ones he'd never seen. There were dragons out there eating blueberries and dragons laughing at clumsy tiger cubs and dragons learning to dance and dragons crying as though their hearts would break over missing homework. He'd been all of them in some way, and he couldn't just toss them into the talons of these angry, vengeful dragons and fly off.

Yes, Sunny," said Thorn, her voice falling like drops of water into the stillness between them. "It's because you're half NightWing.

she spotted SeaWings sitting next to MudWings; IceWings beside SkyWings; SandWings and NightWings and RainWings barely a few claws from one another. That's what I really want,

like the way visiting merchant RainWings or MudWings were sequestered from the NightWings instead of being invited to their parties and festivals.

could see five different sets of scales — yellow, blue, green, black, and brown.

You cannot have a SeaWing as queen of the RainWings. Tsunami, quit that.

It made no sense. Why would a different wing shape, or a slightly different scale color, or antennae, make one dragon superior and another dragon worth nothing?

No one had made fun of his odd talons in years, not since his first month in the wingery.

It can be as good to be different as it is to be fit. When diversity is maintained, local maxima can be populated, rather than avoided altogether. By embodying this idea, the rank-space method solves problems that are beyond both the standard method and the rank method.

Cars pass by, planes fly over, and the train rolls on as people of every color get on with their lives, except Rodney and Jawahir, who join hands and jump from the top of the tunnel into the path of the speeding oncoming train.

A rigid, one-size-fits-all approach usually ends up fitting no one

1. What makes your family unique?

Of course I do know it is the French who are so wicked; but there are all these people who keep coming and going - the Austrians, the Spaniards, the Russians. Pray, are the Russians good now? It would be very shocking - treason no doubt - to put the wrong people in my prayers.

For my own part,' said Captain Aubrey, 'I have no notion of disliking a man for his beliefs, above all if he was born with them. I find I can get along very well with Jews or even...' The P of Papists was already formed, and the word was obliged to come out as Pindoos.

But my dear sir, the United Irishmen were primarily Protestants – their leaders were Protestants. Wolfe Tone and Napper Tandy were Protestants. The Emmets, the O'Connors, Simon Butler, Hamilton Rowan, Lord Edward Fitzgerald were Protestants. And the whole idea of the club was to unite Protestant and Catholic and Presbyterian Irishmen. The Protestants it was who took the initiative.

In reality the gatherings were held in order to entertain these few Moslem guests, to whom the unaccountable behavior of Europeans never ceased to be a fascinating spectacle. Most of the Europeans, of course, thought the Moslem gentlemen were invited to add local color.

What a wonderful thing to be an American! he said impetuously. Yes, said Dyar automatically, never having given much thought to what it would be like not to be an American. It seemed somehow the natural thing to be.

if we constructed a man consisting of virtues only, would not that fellow be the most unbearable bore in the world, wearisome beyond description?

The multicultural 'melting pot' destroys the earth's myriad of unique cultures by depriving them of authority, assimilating them to the global fast-food anti-culture...

Why are there so many Jewish teachers here, but no Jewish students?" someone asked.

These days, though, tolerance means that you accept the other person's views as being true or legitimate. If you claim that someone is wrong, you can get accused of being intolerant--even though, ironically, the person making the charge of intolerance isn't being accepting of your beliefs.

Though we all hold our opinions dear, a hard fact of life is that all opinions are not created equal. Someone has to make a final call or else a church will flounder.