Quotes About Diversity

In the beginning God made the seas, the mountains, the heavens, and buffalo knees. He made lilies, and dew drops, and snail shells, and roses, and dippers, and yappers, and snappers, and noses.

He looked from His heavens and saw it was good, the toes and the crows all looked like they should. The bunny was quick, the finch bright as a daisy, the owl flew at night, and the tortoise was lazy.

If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!

I came to the conclusion that it was impossible to classify anyone in Iran, and herein lay its fascination.

We've all got disabilities. It's just that sometimes they're hidden.

Like cornbread, barbecue is a food that unifies the vast expanse of the American South, an ever larger portion of the American mainstream.

Some need a whip and others a pat on the back and others are better off when they are ignored.

Not chance of birth or place has made us friends, Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations, But the endeavor for the selfsame ends, With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.

What makes sense in the ivy-covered ivory tower may be shrill extremism in America's neighborhoods and workplaces.

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.

Then I perceived, what I had never thought, that all these staring houses were not alike, but different one from another, because they held different dreams.

I have so many other interests: Writing, acting, directing, real life, I need little pieces of it all to satisfy me. The thirst is deep and I am complicated.

Cherokee's American, Ned. It don't get more American than that.

We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its perfect image, for it has no image except Life, and life is multitudinous and emergent in the stream of time.

As for men, those myriad little detached ponds with their own swarming corpuscular life, what were they but a way that water has of going beyond the reach of rivers. (As quoted by Richard Powers in The Echo Maker)

Amplified authentic opinions can be driven with passion while still anchored in respect for those that have a different view.

We'll have Manhattan,The Bronx and StatenIsland too.

interpret a thing in exactly the same way. The world is dynamic in that respect

What's wrong with me? I'll tell you what's wrong, Daisy. This Waheed guy is brown and I'm white—I'm a white guy nearing middle age and times have changed and everyone needs the optics of diversity.

As she held her new baby in her arms, it had hit hard—it was the first time in her life she was looking at family who looked like her. And it made her think that there were more people out there of her blood. Her curiosity grew intense.

It's about political correctness. Give the brown boy the top job because he's brown. We all know it. It has nothing to do with experience and suitability for the position.

It's an impossible situation. We need to stick together in the face of this rampant affirmative action that lauds skin color over experience.