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Quotes About Diversity

In this city 300 languages are spoken and the people that speak them live side by side in harmony. This city typifies what I believe is the future of the human race and a future where we grow together and we share and we learn from each other.
~ Unknown
Everyone is bisexual. Almost everyone has the sexual potential for anything.
~ Unknown
While all bodies share the same fate, all voices do not.
~ Li-Young Lee
Did you know, ma'am, that our mutual friend can say "kiss my arse" in six languages?
~ Unknown
As writer Elisabeth Elliot phrased it, "The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian does make me a different kind of woman.
~ Liz Curtis Higgs
The queers could almost pass for the same species as the straights.
~ Liz Kessler
It was true: I was starting to hate girls. Not that I was into the machismo of being a "manly-man." It was just that, for boys, there seemed to be more options available: there were more ways to be a boy and still be accepted, whereas the popular girls all appeared to be cut from the same cloth. Or they were clones or something.
~ Unknown
In the matter of prejudice...we are all the same. Goddess and demon, human and monster: none of us understand difference, but at least some of us make the effort to try.
~ Liz Williams
Sometimes, the way around prejudice is education.
~ Liza Mundy
In science, there is something called a "jackpot effect," where a male scientist hires women in his lab early in the development of a certain field, and these women hire other talented women, and, as a result, the field ends up with an unusually high number of women. Something like this was at work in cryptanalysis. A few key women proved themselves gifted, early on; a few key men were willing to hire and encourage
~ Liza Mundy
If the Navy could possibly have used dogs or ducks or monkeys, certain of the older admirals would probably have greatly preferred them to women," Gildersleeve acidly remarked later. The
~ Liza Mundy
As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races and different colours.
~ LL Cool J
I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people.
~ LL Cool J
Every spiritual path leads the sincere seeker to the truth that can only be found within. The Sufi says that there are as many roads to God as there are human beings, "as many as the breaths of the children of men." Because we are each individual and unique, the journey of discovering our real nature will be different for each of us. At the same time different spiritual paths are suited to different types of people.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
By remaining true to itself, grime and its immediate family of jungle, UK garage, dubstep and so on had taken up where Soul II Soul left off, and plugged in to how many youngsters really thought about their lives and their music.
~ Unknown
for many youngsters 'back home' was what they saw out of the window; anything else was just an interesting holiday. The capital's constantly evolving street slang provides the best illustration: Jamaican patois remained its foundation, but it included at least as many hip-hop reference points and a grab bag of longstanding Londonisms – you could visit three different time zones within the space of a sentence.
~ Unknown
It might be wishful thinking, but the very name 'jungle' seemed to reflect a wry left-field humour. Ask half a dozen people how the name came about, though, and you'll get six different answers – and they'll all be true.
~ Unknown
By separating the function of adaptation from the function of maintaining the integrity of individual genes, sex allows much greater diversity while still keeping genes whole. Sex is not only fun, it is good engineering practice.
~ Unknown
Men are men and women are women. We've tried for tens of thousands of years to lay down hard and fast lines for the sexes to walk upon, and we've failed miserably.
~ Unknown
It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.
~ Logan Pearsall Smith
Grant, in his message, has remembered all classes and conditions of men to Congress,
~ Unknown
There are 2 kinds of people in the world. Those who enjoy a nice salami and those who have no souls.
~ Lois Greiman
Generally, men are superior in the areas of heavy lifting, where there's a past only by pachyderms and building cranes. Beyond that, I believe any right-thinking thinking will see that women have the indisputable advantage.
~ Lois Greiman
There are lots of fish in the sea. Some are sharks, some are angels, and some are bottom feeders.
~ Lois Greiman