Quotes About Diversity

The uncomfortable reality is, the diversity agenda isn't about honoring and cherishing all racial, ethnic and religious traditions. It's about apologizing for our Western, Judeo-Christian foundations while pretending not to notice that we're elevating in the eyes of our children the very cultures that hold America in disdain.

The political correctness of diversity as a core value essentially cheats some children out of their right to be fully engaged in American society.

The idiosyncrasies of giftedness are rarely seen as "different = interesting," but instead are deemed "different = wrong.

In many ways, commonplace ratings such as "normal/abnormal" and "acceptable/unacceptable" hamper the gifted person who requires not either/or dichotomies but an accepting,

Just because we talk slow doesn't mean we think slow, others point out. On the East Coast they seem to think there's something funny about riding around in a pickup truck. Well in the Deep South, we don't think it's all that natural to hurdle through the dark in a crowded subway.

Still, on average, 97 percent of the MRSA isolates were USA300. In addition, 74 percent of them were a single identical strain, dubbed USA300–0114. For a bacterium that usually was extraordinarily diverse, this was unheard-of.11

Hard-hearted people may be no fun to sit next to at parties, but they are just as entitled to earn a living as the rest of us. Fortunately-for them, at least-the need for insurance adjusters, tax collectors, theater critics, and the like continues to this very day.

Agatha Swanburne - "Not all things should be baked in a pie.

Overspecialize, and you breed in weakness. - Makoto Kuzanagi, Ghost in the shell

My idea is entirely different. I think we should mix all the species together and scatter them worldwide, completely doing away with their uneven distribution. This would give nature a full palette to work with as it establishes a new balance given the current conditions. I call this the Second Genesis.

Massimo Pigliucci

This willingness to entertain more than one idea as worthy and the respect shown for minority opinions are attitudes that draw me to Jewish thought. Differences in opinion are appreciated and encouraged. Sometimes, they even provide a source of amusement. In modern times, we like to quip, "Two Jews, three opinions.

To paraphrase Ben Zoma: "Who is wise? The one who learns from all traditions." I have learned valuable lessons from other traditions while maintaining my own identity and beliefs. This teaching also calls me to listen to those whose political opinions differ from mine. How wise our world would become if only we would all learn from each other!

It is instructive to note that different cultures "discovered" completely different constellations in the sky, a fact that is more consistent with the idea that constellations are a whimsical projection of the human mind than a reflection of astronomic reality.

Never does one so constantly see so many different things as when peering from a small window.

People aren't social, they're tribal. Race doesn't exist, but tribes are fucking real.

I like looking for myself in the whitest of pages. I like finding evidence of myself there, after being told my footprints did not exist on that sand. I think the work of the great white writers is important, but I think it's most important when it's negotiating me and my people, because I am as arrogant and selfish a reader as any other.

People look at interracial couples through their own, distorting racial lens. It doesn't matter what form they take.

Okay, here's the secret. It's not really a secret, but I'll frame it to you as one. The same people who despise you for identifying as mixed? Those are the same people who, when you do identify as black, despise you for not being black enough. And there's nothing you can actually do to be black enough, for them. Because it's not really how you act that they despise. It's you. Your very existence." She

El arte y la cultura aumentan la armonía, la tolerancia y la comprensión entre las personas

El arte y la cultura aumentan la armonía, la tolerancia y la comprensión entre las personas —dijo Gete—.

las herejías —de cualquier clase, no sólo religiosas—son tan ciertas como las ortodoxias y que, además, nunca intentaron imponerse por la fuerza o vencer por el miedo.

One man's thorn is another man's rose.

The soul's rainbow has more colors than the sky's stars.