Quotes About Diversity

Las universidades más prestigiosas del mundo deben ahora competir con rivales de todas partes.

It's a veritable Tower of Babylon, The way you people babble on.

If God wanted us to ask questions, he would have made us men (page 80).

Mrs. Japan and Mrs. Romania had unpronounceable names, the former free-floating with vowels, the latter fortressed by consonants.

We loved our opposites so that we could free ourselves from our selves.

The refusal to become (or to remain) heterosexual always meant to refuse to become a man or a woman, consciously or not.

L'hétérosexualité n'est pas "naturelle", pas plus qu'elle n'est la seule sexualité, la sexualité universelle.

Et vivre en société c'est vivre en hétérosexualité.

If Canada had a soul (a doubtful proposition, Moses thought) then it wasn't to be found in Batoche or the Plains of Abraham or Fort Walsh or Charlottetown or Parliament Hill, but in The Caboose and thousands of bars like it that knit the country together from Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, to the far side of Vancouver Island.

Let me put it this way. Canada is not so much a country as a holding tank filled with the disgruntled progeny of defeated peoples.

Black history is American history.

You're going to relegate my history to a month.

I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.

Labels? Okay, fine. I'm bisensual. Heteroflexible. And life-curious. That about covers it.

The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land.

The era of organized religion controlling every aspect of life is over. No single religion has all the answers. Construction of shrine and temple buildings is not enough

Here's how Polly Francis expresses her sense of a spiritual connection. A new set of faculties seem to be coming into operation. I seem to be awakening to a larger world of wonderment—to catch little glimpses of the immensity and diversity of creation. More than at any other time in my life, I seem to be aware of the beauties of our spinning planet and the sky above. And now I have the time to enjoy them. I feel that old age sharpens our awareness.32

This matter of two sides to every question is bad logic and bad practice: sometimes there are no sides; sometimes there are a hundred.

15 percent of the adult population in major cities like Berlin, Vienna, Paris, and London.

It would be a lot easier if each of us were related to someone of another color and if, eventually, we were all one color. In America, this can happen.

I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.

Every country has a legend. But in Uganda, everyone is a legend of their kind

Baalbek is so beautiful. It is the heart of beauty in the Middle East - I want to embrace these people with my music. I will try so hard for them. Their president is a Christian, their prime minister is a Muslim. Music is for everyone.

We all have the same God, we just serve him differently. Rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, oceans all have different names, but they all contain water. So do religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times. It doesn't matter whether you're a Muslim, a Christian, or a Jew. When you believe in God, you should believe that all people are part of one family. If you love God, you can't love only some of his children.