Quotes About Diversity

The complexity of immigration as an issue begins with a basic human trait: we are reluctant to share.

How can one be bored in a world where a billion examples of human ingenuity, peculiarity, pigheadedness, and compassion are on regular view?

The Nazis chased the dream of a racially pure society through occupation and conquest, thus ensuring intimate contact with people of many non-Germanic nationalities and races. The Communists insisted that national identity was irrelevant but obsessively persecuted men and women because of who they were: Latvians, Poles, Ukrainians, Armenians, Finns, Chechens, Koreans, and Turks.

becoming French." Meanwhile, as the birth rate of Europe's indigenous population remains stagnant, the newcomers are fruitful and multiplying. Over time, resentment toward them has grown, along with

Cosmopolitanism, once considered a virtue, is less in vogue than nativism.

The wise response to intolerance is not more intolerance or self-righteousness; it is a coming together across the ideological spectrum of people who want to make democracies more effective.

Like and equal are not the same thing at all.

Don't ever try to be only a single thing, an unbroken human being. If so many people love you, can you honestly be one thing?

Parents who have more than one child are very aware that, while we certainly have an impact on our child's development, it has as much to do with them as with us. "I can't believe how different my kids are" should inform us that child development is an uneven process only partly tied to parenting (and no one knows exactly how much that "partly" is).

In the real world, success has all kinds of different faces in all kinds of different fields of endeavor. It would be nice if we could acknowledge as much to our kids.

Our job is to produce and guide our children; not to reproduce ourselves. Nor should we want to. One of the absolute miracles of life is the profound uniqueness of each person.

Not every god need be the same, he said.

Some had a whole epic, others just a verse

Aucun homme ne vaut plus qu'un autre, d'où qu'il vienne

I am only a nymph after all, for nothing is more common among us than this.

Bahá'í teachings have certain safeguards against religious intolerance. Bahá'í writings contain statements that affirm freedom of conscience, the right to different religious beliefs, or to no religious belief. Bahá'ís are told not to discriminate in any way against those who are not Bahá'ís, and children born into Bahá'í families are free to choose their own spiritual paths.

Rather than being a 'ship of state', Italy often seems more like a flotilla of boats, each piloted according to a different chart, each competing for access to the most favourable winds, yet each afraid of being isolated from the other craft.

Palermo also seemed like a stone palimpsest of cultures stretching back over many hundreds of years.

In a morally and religiously diverse culture such as ours, humility is a much-needed key to harmony.

in this country where an hour's train ride will take you from Siberian snow into African desert, unity of population is hardly to be expected.

The whole notion of what is black and what is Southern is a thorny issue, to say the least.

Here it is also possible to suggest that there are more than a few similarities in dishes of African origin throughout the hemisphere, notably the preparation of composed rice dishes; the creation of various types of fritters and croquettes; the use of smoked ingredients for seasoning; the use of okra as a thickener; the abundant use of leafy green vegetables; the abundant use (some would say abuse) of peppery hot sauces; and the use of nuts and seeds as thickeners.

Given the overwhelming presence of English settlers, the warp of cookery in the colonies was English. … But from the very beginning, there were other peoples on the scene contributing brilliant streaks and splashes of color to the tapestry that was American cookery.

How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone and narrow to be everything to someone? No, a woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. (What's Wrong with the World)