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Quotes About Diversity

European nightmare – the delusional myth of one blood, one race, one people. And
~ John Ralston Saul
Canada is a test case for a grand notion – the notion that dissimilar peoples can share land, resources, power and dreams while respecting and sustaining their differences." So
~ John Ralston Saul
The very idea of a nation-state intentionally built on ideas and a multiplicity of races, languages and myths doesn't fit into the historic Western framework and therefore cannot be real.
~ John Ralston Saul
Hume's skepticism in morals does not arise from his being struck by the diversity of the moral judgments of mankind. As I have indicated, he thinks that people more or less naturally agree in their moral judgments and count the same qualities of character as virtues and vices; it is rather the enthusiasms of religion and superstition that lead to differences, not to mention the corruptions of political power.
~ John Rawls
There are kids at our school with brown skin and kids with black skin, but I knew a kid with green skin would just be too much.
~ Unknown
There are kids at our school with brown skin and kids with black skin, but I knew that kid with green skin would just be too much.
~ Unknown
There are kids at our school with brown skin and kids with black skin, but I knew that a kid with green skin would just be too much.
~ Unknown
As the art of life is learned, it will be found at last that all lovely things are also necessary: - the wild flower by the wayside, as well as the tended corn; and the wild birds and creatures of the forest, as well as the tended cattle; because man doth not live by bread only, but also by the desert manna; by every wondrous word and unknowable work of God
~ John Ruskin
There is no process of amalgamation by which opinions, wrong individually, can become right merely by their multitude.
~ John Ruskin
When a collection of brilliant minds, attitudes, and talents come together... expect a masterpiece
~ John Ruskin
Great art, whether expressing itself in words, colours, or stones, does not say the same thing over and over again; that the merit of architectural, as of every other art, consists in its saying new and different things; that to repeat itself is no more a characteristic of genius in marble than it is of genius in print; and that we may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not only correct, but entertaining.
~ John Ruskin
vegetables in your restaurants are not so good." "Better in Russia?" Reynolds asked, interested. "I should say so," Nadya said. "Also better in France, in Germany, in Scandinavia, in Italy, in Israel.
~ John Sandford
Mount Pleasant was an older town, where no two houses, standing side by side, seemed to come out of the same architectural style, with nineteenth-century Victorians up against pastel-colored postwar ramblers. Most of the houses had traditional flower gardens with marigolds and zinnias, and some with head-high sunflowers.
~ John Sandford
Should Virgil grow a mustache, he'd look like everybody else, Virgil thought: a monoculture of German-Scandinavian white people, now getting a little salsa poured on it, to the great relief of everyone.
~ John Sandford
The purpose of depots like this one is to allow contact between alien species without direct contact. Early on, direct contacts were tried many times, by many different species, in many different ways. It almost always went badly. With few exceptions, alien species are too different from each other to allow constructive interaction. At best the efforts were extremely discomforting to one or both of the contactees. At worst, one or both found the other genuinely repugnant in some way.
~ John Sandford
It's a mixed crowd at the dogs - black, white, hispanic - but to Walt they all look like Jackie Gleason. Heavyset guys with big plans and polyester souls.
~ John Sayles
Relations were never good (how comfortable can you really be with a race that sees you as a nutritious part of a complete breakfast).
~ John Scalzi
Do your people have racists? People who believe they are inherently superior to all other types of intelligent people?" "We have some," Sorvalh said. "They're generally agreed to be idiots.
~ John Scalzi
The Fflict recognized five genders: male, female, zhial, yal, and neuter. Aul was zhial, and ze liked zis pronouns accurately stated. I would too, in zis position.
~ John Scalzi
What if I told you that that which makes you fundamentally human is something that you share with another people, a people so different from you that they might appear strange or frightening at first glance. A people who might terrify you from appearance alone. Could you make the jump, and understand that inside, they are not so different at all?
~ John Scalzi
There's nothing like sharing menarche with a billion hermaphrodites. I think it was everyone's first time.
~ John Scalzi
There were more than a few scientists who knew one little thing, and then thought that knowledge was universally applicable to every other problem, to the point of excluding or discounting information from people whose specialty was that other problem.
~ John Scalzi
You can't afford anthropomorphic biases when some of the aliens most like us would rather make human hamburgers than peace.
~ John Scalzi
Obin: "it," not "he" or "she." Because they're hermaphrodites. That means male and female sex organs. Go ahead and have your giggle. I'll wait. Okay, done? Good.)
~ John Scalzi