Quotes About Diversity

In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity,

In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity," is how O'Connor summarized the core of the argument for the law school's position. She left little doubt that she had been persuaded not only

It's one thing to expect teachers to challenge each child, and expect kids to do their best. It's another to expect that the best will be the same for everyone.

It's not hard to care about people who are like you...Your own family, and people like them. But...we have to always make the extra effort with people who aren't like us. To care about them and listen to them, especially if they'e different from us. Because that's one of the things that makes us human. It's something we can do that other animals can't.

Nellie grinned. "Dude, I am lovin' this. First a girl pirate, and now this Nanny. It's great, isn't it?" she said as she glanced at Amy. "What's so great about it?" Dan asked. "Women," Nellie answered. "Women kicking butt all over the place.

At the heart of such a view of authenticity is a belief that indigenous cultures cannot change, cannot recreate themselves and still claim to be indigenous. Nor can they be complicated, internally diverse or contradictory. Only the West has that privilege

If you really care about these issues and want to make a difference, you must not use race as a proxy for poverty or poverty as a proxy for race. They intersect and overlap, but to really understand the health of this country, you have to be more sophisticated than assuming that only poor Blacks are affected by this crisis. Look deeper, think differently.

Edith would always believe art was for everyone, whether rich or poor, educated or not.

You know how we'd get along better? If everybody'd just remember how we're all related. White, black, Asian, skin. No difference. All the bloodlines go back to that one old mama in Africa.

Sculptors, poets, painters, musicians--they're the traditional purveyors of Beauty. But it can as easily be created by a gardener, a farmer, a plumber, a careworker.

Labels don't mean much to me one way or another -- except when they close the minds of potential readers. I'd much rather we do away with genres and simply file everything under fiction. I know it can work -- one of my favourite record stores (Waterloo Music in Austin) simply files everything alphabetically and no one seems to have much problem finding what they're looking for.

I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen.

Other people savor the symmetry of opposites.

Membership of a larger group is not an identity. Being Asian is not an identity. Being gay is not an identity. Being deaf, blind, or wheelchair-bound is not an identity, nor is being economically deprived.

We fiction writers have to preserve the right to wear many hats – including sombreros.

at the University of Ottawa in Canada, a yoga teacher was shamed into suspending her class, "because yoga originally comes from India." She offered to retitle the course "Mindful Stretching.

Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

In places where men are used to differences they inevitably become tolerant.

A large plural society cannot be governed without recognizing that, transcending its plural interests, there is a rational order with a superior common law.

The true speech of man is idiomatic, if not of the earth and sky, then at least of the saloon and the bleachers.

What place does a woman have here, in the realm of men?

My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the '60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family.