Quotes About Diversity

[My father] was not a racist, unlike what the white racist media would say. He had a global outlook just like Barack [Obama] and Michelle [Obama].

Michelle and Barack [Obama] epitomize what my father set the stage for - they epitomize global community organizing. I'm a global child, I was raised a global child, and he's a global child.

My father loved all different types of music. He wasn't a snob. He wasn't a purist.

My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedda Gabler' with Dame Diana Rigg.

My mom loved rock n' roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around. He liked classical music and Duke Ellington.

Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.

We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

There are irrational fears. If you see a woman wearing a hijab and fear is your first thought, something's really wrong.

Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence.

There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear.

All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.

Imagine a 15-year-old kid saying, 'I have two moms - it's cool.' I don't fear that at all.

Some people fear seeing or feeling anything about which there is no general agreement. For others, it is thrilling to be aware of innuendo, shading, complexity.

President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation.

We're frightened of what makes us different.

Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.

In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants.

Were we all one body, we should lose the tremendous stimulation that comes from the present arrangement, and I fear that our uniformity would become the uniformity of death and the tomb.

Since these early days, I have seen and have experienced many types of discrimination and all of them were rooted in the fear of people that were different than the majority.

That was the fear that there would be no identity anymore, for Canada. It was foolish, because there are so many examples of separatism, and nothing has disintegrated, unless they went to war.

Because people fear those who are different. And fear can make people do stupid things.

God didn't put you in this world for you to be perfect, he put you in this world for you to be your self.

Everyone's values are different, and we must respect them all because that's what makes life interesting.