Quotes About Diversity

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My name is Abraham van Helsing. And I've seen more than you can possibly believe exist." "I don't recognize your accent, boy. Where do you come from?" "I'm Dutch." "You sound more German than Dutch." "My mother is German. I'm told I got the accent from her. But I am Dutch.

These, of course, are far more enlightened times, when it is only acceptable to believe that not being a Christian is likely to mean one is a criminal only if one is a Muslim (or at least so we've been assured by people who claim to know such things)

Is not literature meant to speak of our being a thousand different kinds of things, at times creating even this diversity? If literature gives up this purpose, this duty, it renounces all claim to legitimacy. I am Hungarian. I I am Slovene. I am Serbian. You do not need literature for sentences like that. A bureaucrat will do, and a rubber stamp. A border guard. An Army.

Schools everywhere are organized on the assumption that there is only one right way to learn and that it is the same way for everybody.

Structuring jobs to fit personality is almost certain to lead to favoritism and conformity. And no organization can afford either. It needs equity and impersonal fairness in its personnel decisions. Or else it will either lose its good people or destroy their incentive. And it needs diversity. Or else it will lack the ability to change and the ability for dissent which (as Chapter 7 will discuss) the right decision demands.

Each member of the enterprise contributes something different, but they must all contribute toward a common goal.

A young man who has the right strength for one organization may be a total misfit in another, which from the outside looks just the same.

Resist the temptation to redesign seats on the bus to specific personalities (except for the exceptionally rare genius)

If my father could not abide Christianity, he had no objections to individual Christians.

When I reach the head of the line, I hand my passport to the black official and greet him in Shona, Zimbabwe's main vernacular. He ripens in smile and demands, "Why don't you stay here? We need people like you." By "people like you," he means white Zimbabweans.

Cuanto más me doy cuenta de lo mucho que tengo en común con todos, tanto menos solidario me siento con uno determinado.

Wang Chaosu shouted everything at me, the way many Americans do when they meet foreigners with bad English.

First, people may vary because they inherited different genes from their parents. Second, genetically similar individuals may differ because they have lived in different environments.5 Finally, people may differ because they have acquired different beliefs, values, and skills

biologists would call the proximate causes of human variation-that is, we have been talking about its immediate causes rather than its long-run evolutionary causes. If

College students, couples, people covered with eagle tattoos, boat captains, white-haired folks—we were all singing, waiting especially for the chorus

In essentials, unity; in inessentials, diversity; in all things, charity.

It's the same world as ours but also a different world because no two people see it in exactly the same way.

The flood of love will fill all the containers to the fullest, but some containers will be larger than others.

are more like Dog and Cat and Bird than like Lassie and Fido and Spot. Therefore

We see that the universe is full of all sorts of species. Every possible rung on the cosmic hierarchy is filled. There are no gaps. Below us there are intelligent animals, like apes, then less intelligent animals, like fish, then barely intelligent animals, like slugs and TV producers, then plants, then minerals.

Why should his sexual preference preclude his being voted into Hall of Fame? You don't know much about baseball, do you, doc?

Cass had photo recall and could speak backward at will. Aly was a hacker genius and movie expert. Marco was Michael Jordan on steroids, without the steroids. I was chopped liver.

I have never figured out how women work but I do know that their skin color has no significance. Black or white, every last one is pretty pink on the inside and they are all impossible.