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Quotes About Diversity

and either I'm nobody, or I'm a nation
~ Derek Walcott
The Protestants seem to come here because they hate Islam and the Catholics because they love God.
~ Dervla Murphy
the fact that she completely obscured his view of the road was quite irrelevant since Asian drivers never look where they're going.
~ Dervla Murphy
True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, national origin or any other identity attribute.
~ Desmond Tutu
My first point seems overwhelmingly simple: that the accidents of birth and geography determine to a very large extent to what faith we belong.
~ Desmond Tutu
God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.
~ Desmond Tutu
We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and white.
~ Desmond Tutu
After all, we are created in the image of a God who is a diversity of persons who exist in ineffable unity. This
~ Desmond Tutu
What a profound scientific discovery that blacks, Coloreds (usually people of mixed race), and Indians were in fact human beings, who had the same concerns and anxieties and aspirations. They wanted a decent home, a good job, a safe environment for their families, good schools for their children, and almost none wanted to drive the whites into the sea. They just wanted their place in the sun. Everywhere else elections are
~ Desmond Tutu
For this cake, I want to mingle the womanly and masculine foods- sugars and meats in particular. The walls must come down. Must temper, must balance. Add the leeks to the chocolate, vanilla to the turnip. Tear away the sacred walls between the sweet and savory worlds.
~ Diana Abu-Jaber
At work, Sirine announces that this year will be an Arabic Thanksgiving with rice and pine nuts and ground lamb in the turkey instead of cornbread, and yogurt sauce instead of cranberries. Mireille sulks and says she doesn't like yogurt and Sirine says, annoyed, why can't we ever do things differently? And Um-Nadia says, girls, never mind already, we can have the for-crying-out-loud rice stuffing and I'll bring the can of the red berries sauce.
~ Diana Abu-Jaber
Sirine buys sweet, dense Mexican candies, pastel-colored Korean candies, crackling layers of tea leaves, lemongrass, kaffir leaves, Chinese medicinal herbs and powders, Japanese ointments and pastes. She tastes everything edible, studies the new flavors, tests the shock of them; and she learns, every time she tastes, about balance and composition, addition and subtraction.
~ Diana Abu-Jaber
He's a Muslim , you know. Um-Nadia's voice is half-warning and half-laughter. Dark as an Egyptian. Ma! Mirielle shouts. Get a grip. Um-Nadia's grinning like it's one of her old jokes. And here is our beautiful Sirine, whiter than this. She takes a bite out of a whole peeled onion as if it were an apple.
~ Diana Abu-Jaber
When those of dissimilar views interact, conformity pressures are argued to encourage those holding minority viewpoints to adopt the prevailing attitude. When those of like mind come together, the feared outcome is polarization: that is, people within homogeneous networks may be reinforced so that they hold the same viewpoints, only more strongly.
~ Unknown
I know why the Jews and Muslims have nine hundred names for God; one small word is not enough for love.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Ahora sé por qué los judíos y los musulmanes tienen novecientos nombres para denominar a Dios; al amor no le basta con una palabra.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I know why the Jews and Muslims have nine hundred names for God; one small word is not enough for love. I
~ Diana Gabaldon
Lawrence is a bonny man for a Jew, but he's curious.
~ Diana Gabaldon
French, spoken by a number of people at a distance, strongly resembles the quacking conversation of ducks and geese, with its nasal elements. English, on the other hand, has a slower pace, and much less rise and fall in its intonations. Spoken at a distance where individual voices are impossible to distinguish, it has the gruff, friendly monotony of a sheepdog's barking.
~ Diana Gabaldon
So happen back fifty years, the Mohawk took and adopted the whole tribe of the Tuscarora. Don't many tribes speak exactly the same language," Myers explained. "But some are closer than others. Tuscarora's more like the Mohawk than 'tis like the Creek or the Cherokee.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Sassenach I might be to him, but not English.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I would ask the one thing of ye, lad—let it be the English. Not your ain folk.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I think the woman's side has been much better in Asia.
~ Kei Nishikori
I told my team, 'I don't want to go out for Asian roles anymore.'
~ Ross Butler