Quotes About Diversity

It seemed to me we'd practised segregation for centuries now and that hadn't worked either. What would satisfy all the noughts and the Crosses who felt the same as Mum? Separate countries? Separate planets? How far away was far enough? What was it about the differences in others that scared some people so much?

I'm a Cross – closer to God

Malorie Blackman

Ladies and gentlemen, for your delectation and delight, another performance of 'You're a nought and don't you ever forget it, blanker boy.

those glossy magazines with impossibly beautiful women on the cover and inside. Women with polished mahogany skin who looked like they'd never had a pimple in their lives – nor a decent meal either come to that. Women with teeth which shone like fresh snow in sunshine.

everyone else got lumped into the WAME category like we were all one big, homogenous mass and not worthy of distinct categorization.

welcome sign that shouted: "We love visitors in Sunshine, Texas! Stay for a while—we'll make you smile!" Underneath that horrible threat was the number of idiots who lived here: 403. I was already claustrophobic. I preferred big cities with their bad drivers, polluted skies, shitty attitudes, and endless cheap motel and diner options.

Ruf Gottes In der Begegnung mit Jesus Christus erfährt der Mensch den Ruf Gottes und in ihm die Berufung zum Leben in der Gemeinschaft Jesu Christi. Als Heide oder Jude, als Sklave oder Freier, als Mann oder Frau, als verheiratet oder Ehelosen trifft den Menschen der Ruf. Dort wo er gerade ist, soll er den Ruf hören und sich von ihm in Anspruch nehmen lassen.

the difference between the tolerant and the extremist was not so great. "Looking into the Other, we can always find something of ourselves within.

I never knew what language they'd lapse into when fucked - Urdu or Telugu or a mix of both (only the techies came in English).

What are you now, Jaz Bond? Double-oh-Six, the chhakka secret agent?

They had nationalities even: Thai eggplant, Chinese eggplant, Italian eggplant. The United Nations of eggplants terrified me because I knew the oblong purple vegetable as baingan, brinjal in English, and I could cook it in five different ways. Would this exotic brinjal still yield to my hands?

In Manhattan, brown men were either cab drivers or Wall Street bankers, immigrants or expatriates, the gulf between them as wide as a skyscraper was tall.

Aren't Hindu, Sikh, Mussalman, Isai, Parsee like the spices in Panjab's masala box? Assorted?

Muslims and Hindus and Sikhs were not separate nations - they were Panjabis who had lived for years on the land, enjoying each other's festivities or ignoring them, but co-existing nonetheless.

No matter who we are, what we believe in or who we love. We are all heroes.

Aunque as follas sexan moitas, a raíz é só unha. (p. 185).

The policy of letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is designed to promote the flourishing of the arts and the progress of science; it is designed to enable a socialist culture to thrive in our land.

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

That is, I feel, the concern of the educator - to teach how to be sensitive to the differences in ourselves as well as outside ourselves, not to supervise the memorization of facts.

Witness the diversity of an unpredictable self that seems to repeat and reproduce itself exactly but that can also take me by surprise, outstrip and escape me.

understood how [10]all the flowers He has created are beautiful, how the splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the Lily do not take away the perfume of the little violet or the delightful simplicity of the daisy. I understood that if all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty, and the fields would no longer be decked out with little wild flowers.

He set before me the book of nature; I understood how all the flowers He has created are beautiful, how the splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not take away from the perfume of the little violet or the delightful simplicity of the daisy

all souls cannot be the same, that it is necessary there be different types in order to honor [20]each of God's perfections in a particular way.