Quotes About Diversity

Una pareja se compone de dos personas autónomas, ¡no es una amalgama única, por Dios!

It's strange that the tendency in this global world is to accentuate identities, picking the one that most marginalizes you—sexuality, race, disability. I'm struck by the way we all rush to join our particular group, emphasizing what makes us different from everyone else, in order to make us all the same.

Conocer sus historias la ayudará a ser mujer. Eso sí, le pediré que no se identifique solamente con una, porque puede ser fuente de impensables dolores.

Es raro que la tendencia en el mundo global sea la de acentuar identidades, eligiendo la que más te margina —identidad gay, de raza, de discapacitado—. Me impresiona cómo corremos todos a adherirnos a nuestro grupo, haciendo hincapié en lo que más nos diferencia de los demás. Para hacernos iguales.

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.

The cooking of Italy is really the cooking of regions that long antedate the Italian nation, regions that until 1861 were part of sovereign and usually hostile states, sharing few cultural traditions and no common spoken language

Italians love to grow and eat vegetables, and in each of the twenty regions of the country, there is a favorite one.

Dijo Pep: "Todos sois iguales es la mentira más grande que existe en el deporte. No todos son iguales, ni todos deben ser tratados iguales".

Thomas Jefferson famously said: "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god." In other words, government has no business interfering with our beliefs, but legitimately protects us from each other.

Imagine a world where all religious groups can simply freeze their beliefs and not have to interact with the culture.)

RFRA introduced an era of extreme religious liberty in the United States that would have been rejected by the Framers, who understood the difference between ordered liberty and licentiousness. We need to return to that distinction, or risk the end of our largely peaceful religiously diverse country.

I'm completely on board with fashion as an expression of individuality, but T'Chia seemed to be expressing several individuals.

Most people find it difficult to believe that others choose a way of life that is unlike their own. They prefer to think that it must be forced upon them through necessity or that they harbour a desire to be 'different', otherwise it might be seen as a criticism of their own decisions.

And yet, there are still people in American politics who, for some reason, cling to this belief that America is better off adopting the economic policies of nations whose people who immigrate here from there.

But since her earliest days, America has inspired people from all over the world. Inspired them with the hope that one day their own countries would be one like this one.

We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.

And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the men and women who built here the nation that saved the world.

Remember the Golden Rule? "Treat people as you would like to be treated." The best managers break the Golden Rule every day. They would say don't treat people as you would like to be treated. This presupposes that everyone breathes the same psychological oxygen as you. For example, if you are competitive, everyone must be similarly competitive. If you like to be praised in public, everyone else must, too. Everyone must share your hatred of micromanagement.

So this is (a manager's) dilemma: The manager must retain control and focus people on performance. But she is bound by her belief that she cannot force everyone to perform the same way. ... The solution is as elegant as it is efficient: Define the right outcomes and let each person find his own route toward these outcomes.

great principles, great ideals know no nationality.

Do not remove the kinks from your hair - remove them from your brain.

Same blood, different mud.

I'm trained in weapons, demolition, and unarmed combat. I'm a sniper, and I'm the platoon medic. But most of all, I'm an American.

And difference, as he learned that day, inspired a particular kind of savagery.