Quotes About Diversity

Culture is not a matter of a change of climate.

The more I deal in it, the surer I am that human nature is all of the same critter, but that there's a heap of choice in the cuts.

What I had come to love about book club (besides the fabulous desserts and free liquor) was how in hearing so many opinions about the same book, your own opinion expanded, as if you'd read the book several times instead of just once.

There are all kinds of stars in God's skies. Some are so bright and twinkly they take your breath away; and others don't shine so brightly but they're still tehre. Thier light's just a little softer, that's all.:

Les femmes portent les marques, le langage et les nuances de leur culture plus que les hommes. Tout ce qui est désiré ou détesté est projeté sur le corps féminin.

of each other, and I daresay we'd all be rather boring.

Funny how people could perceive attributes differently. What one person favored, another rejected.

What women these Christians have." ~ Libanius, fourth-century pagan scholar

I was the only student she'd taught who'd actually known any deaf people. Most of the students in my courses were there because they'd seen a movie or read a Helen Keller book.

We don't sign here, of course. We want to prepare these children to enter the normal world." She believed that.

One of the criticisms leveled at deaf people is that they're rigid thinkers. For

And there is also a camp of compromise—those who favor "total communication," or signing while speaking in full sentences.

The oralists believe in speaking and lipreading without ever signing; and the manualists are pro-signing in American Sign Language (ASL).

Less and less we were freaks. More and more we were curiosities.

Having hearing children meant they had to come into contact with hearing people even more frequently than they would have otherwise—hearing teachers and scout leaders wouldn't have been such a part of their lives.

I love the new legal immigrants they want their kids to be safe just like I do.

And no kinds of love are better than others. Some Kinda Love

Nat Glover (Jacksonville Sheriff 1995-2003). I appointed him patrolman when I was mayor. In 1965, we had a segregated police department. A black officer could not arrest a white person. When the black officers were recruited, they had their own precinct over on the west side of LaVilla and were given passed down uniforms.

Si on a regardé un homme jusqu'à ne plus voir en lui que ce qui le fait différent des autres, le particulier en lui, il est bouleversant de retrouver avec d'autant plus de force qu'on l'oubliait déjà, que l'essentiel en lui c'est ce qui ressemble aux autres

We're trying to show that we're not a little bit of England in America, but a place for Americans to gain a better perspective on their own history.

Mi?o?? nie zna granic, Holling. Kosi wszystko: wiek, kolor skóry, religi?, p?e?.

I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

Compared to a novel, a film is like an economy pizza where there are no olives, no ham, no anchovies, no mushrooms, and all you've got is the dough.