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Quotes About Diversity

Education is the civil rights issue of our generation.
~ Arne Duncan
If you know your Bible and your Shakespeare and can shoot craps, you have a liberal education.
~ Tallulah Bankhead
Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.
~ Bill Cosby
College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.
~ John Cage, M: Writings '67-'72
I like to say that I had a really good musical education because it was inclusive of all styles of music and I like it like that.
~ Joe Louis Walker
Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations.
~ Walt Whitman
I got a liberal education. A white guy, rapping as Bugs Bunny, on a quintuple-platinum album.
~ Billy West
I have a pilot called The Re-Education of Oliver Cooper starring the white kid from Project X where follows a black girl to a black university, like in Legally Blonde. I have so many fun projects.
~ Russell Simmons
The goal of higher education should be to champion the airing of all honest viewpoints. Nothing less is acceptable.
~ Bill O'Reilly
Separate but equal is terrible for education but it's perfect for eyebrows.
~ Demetri Martin
Our educational system basically strives for normal-which is too bad. Sometimes the exceptional is classified as abnormal and pushed aside.
~ Neil Young
Global education is not a zero-sum game. The rise of universities in Asia will be a benefit to the entire world.
~ Unknown
We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto.
~ Newt Gingrich
By nature all people are alike, but by education become different
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere, yet I encourage travel to as many destinations as possible for the sake of education as well as pleasure.
~ Maya Angelou
I grew up in an non-athletic family, where my parents were interested in music, in literature, in education and art.
~ Bill Walton
I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz, Frank Sinatra, everything.
~ Mayer Hawthorne
I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature.
~ Peter Greenaway
The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.
~ Gary Locke
Singapore has been incredibly well-managed. It was created out of the swamp, with a strong emotional idea: a safe place for mostly Chinese, but accepting other cultures and other races.
~ Nicolas Berggruen
Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.
~ Herbert Read
I think a lot of us go through a period where we feel like outsiders, and deal with that by wishing we were insiders. So that was the emotional core of American Born Chinese.
~ Gene Luen Yang
It's good to be incompatible with your partner sometimes. It causes your souls to stretch & grow - the point of a soul mate!
~ Judith Orloff
Life is not just black and white, there are a million shades in between.
~ Hanif Hassan Barbhuiya