Quotes About Diversity

It's a study in deliberate asymmetry.

They were pretty, too, a blonde, a brunette, and a redhead, and they had nice . . . smiles.

He looks something like a Caucasian." "Impossible," I said. "He has rhythm and he can dance.

We're all Americans tonight.

because they didn't care if their adoptive child's skin was a different color from their own. They were just looking for a child to love. And

No group is worth joining if everybody is welcome.

I never met a normal person and neither have you.

It's like gender trumps ideas

Today Protestants provide their customers with over 33,800 denominational options—33and this from a movement whose founder prayed, That they all may be one (John 17:21). It is no wonder people question our sincerity.

Cara: *Flies* Gen: What? I don't have wings! Cara: Ofcourse not! You're a boy.

Peoples is peoples. -Pete-

Two Iranians lectured him in broken English about the Bill of Rights, followed by an indignant Sri Lankan couple who scolded him for ruining their honeymoon. Brandon stepped into the woods to pee later that night and nine Venezuelans surrendered. The shit-magnet razzing roared to new heights.

a heck of a lot of things are bound to go wrong in a world as big as this one. And if there's an answer to why it's that way - and there ain't always - why, it's probably not just one answer by itself, but thousands of answers.

In one of his most famous quotations, King sadly said, "I am [ashamed] and appalled that eleven o'clock on Sunday morning is the most segregated hour in Christian America.

I have always learned the most about the world by going to places I was never supposed to be and being with people I was never supposed to meet.

Well, I see black and white and red and yellow, even green—getting together. And their weapons are shining clean—but I'm not talking about swords, knives, and guns. I'm talking about the power of God and the new rising sun.

Prejudice," Rickey told the table. "It reflects an attitude of a great many people in this country who don't introspect themselves very closely about their own prejudices. . . . You can't meet it with words. You can't take prejudice straight on. It must be done by proximity. Proximity! The player alongside you. No matter what the skin color or language. Win the game. Win all. Get the championship and the check that goes with it.

We need more fruitcakes in this world, and less bakers!

It is interesting to note that an overwhelming majority of citizens in the world's three largest democracies have different religions: India (81 percent Hindu), the United States (76 percent Christian), and Indonesia (87 percent Muslim). Two of them have elected women as leaders of their government.

Those Christians who resist the inclination toward fundamentalism and who follow the nature, actions, and words of Jesus Christ should consider people who are different from us to be worthy of our care, generosity, forgiveness, compassion, and unselfish love.

O mais importante e bonito, do mundo, é isto: que as pessoas não estão sempre iguais, ainda não foram terminadas – mas que elas vão sempre mudando. (...) Natureza da gente não cabe em nenhuma certeza.

It is often said that New York is a city for only the very rich and the very poor. It is less often said that New York is also, at least for those of us who came there from somewhere else, a city for only the very young.

Out under the pepper trees the boys from the Mexican crew sat around sucking caramels, and down the road some of the technical men sat around a place which served a stuffed lobster and a glass of tequila for one dollar American, but it was inside the cavernous empty commissary where the talent sat around, the reasons for the exercise, all sitting around the big table picking at huevos con queso and Carta Blanca beer.

We all have our own trips and it is a nice drive.