Quotes About Diversity

Grouping students by the same age is just a bad idea. The education-industrial complex is structured around organizing children by age. This is a bad idea for so many reasons.

doctrine of the Trinity means that there can be genuine diversity and even order among persons without diminishing their equality.

kültürel çeÅŸitlilik olgusu yads?n?r; yaÅŸam?m?z? düzenleyen normlara uymayan ne varsa kültürün d???na, doÄŸaya at?lmas? yeÄŸlenir.

Ama diÄŸer yandan, "herkes kendi al???k olmad??? ÅŸeye barbarl?k der". Oysa ne kadar acayip, sars?c?, hatta baÅŸkald?rt?c? görünürse görünsün, baÄŸlam?na yerleÅŸtirilirse, iyi yönlendirilen bir akl?n aç?klayamayaca?? inanç ya da örf ve âdet yoktur.

BaÅŸka kültürlerden âdet alma bir olgudur; ama al?nan, sebeplerin tamam?n? beraberinde getirmez. Ä°thal edilen al??kanl?k özümsenmez, daha ziyade katalizör rolü oynar; yani sadece varl???yla, ikinci ortamda olas? hâlde zaten mevcut olan benzer bir al??kanl???n tezahürüne yol açar.

Kültürlerin çeÅŸitliliÄŸi insan topluluklar?n?n birbirinden yal?t?lmas?ndan çok, onlar? birleÅŸtiren iliÅŸkilere baÄŸl?d?r.

The more we claim to discriminate between cultures and customs as good and bad, the more completely do we identify ourselves with those we would condemn. By refusing to consider as human those who seem to us to be the most "savage" or "barbarous" of their representatives, we merely adopt one of their own characteristic attitudes. The barbarian is, first and foremost, the man who believes in barbarism.

A peculiar feature – no doubt a weakness – of my mental make-up is that I find it difficult to concentrate twice on the same subject. Normally

Apparently I've been typecast in science fiction: I'm a Russian bisexual telepathic Jew.

Give them all the contextualization and whatnot you like – they're still chalk and cheese.

Perhaps the most insidious and least understood form of segregation is that of the word. (Ralph Ellison)

this nation is both its credits and debits.

Just 2 percent of the world's population and 5 percent of white people in the U.S. have blond hair, but 35 percent of female U.S. senators and 48 percent of female CEOs at S&P 500 companies are

But all the structures and all the diversity planning put in place to alter those structures, and all the desires of whites to assimilate blacks in their day-to-day lives, come with the continued outrage at rage. All

If white people don't see their whiteness, how can they speak to it? Was the student white? Who wrote the scenario? Does diversity not include any training to see ourselves or is it simply about addressing black grievance?

Looking around, I wonder about all the white parents surrounding me. Are any of them anxious that these white teachers are overrepresenting the race of their child and therefore affirming white dominance and white hierarchical thinking? Are any concerned that these white teachers, with their overwhelming representation of whiteness, are confirming the racist structures we are all subject to? What is my aim here? I

History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.

Today, questioning oneself about Europe means asking oneself how one relates to Germany.

I think there is a predisposition among Christians that Hollywood is anti-Jesus or anti-Christianity. I was warned I'd have to fight to maintain the freedom to express my beliefs. It's an unfair stereotype, and so far that's been the farthest from the truth. While everyone I work with may not share my beliefs, I have been surrounded by nothing but support.

I liked being able to work with all the different producers and take what they brought to the table and bring my own style to it.

In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.

Here is what I know about homosexuality: That it is okay. That it is a sin if done wrong. That it is a better sin if done right

The fact is that no language can be truly alive that is not used by women.

We realized that among us, among all the races, we had a staggering fund of knowledge and of techniques - that working together, by putting together all this knowledge and capability, we could arrive at something that would be far greater and more significant than any race, alone, could hope of accomplishing.