Quotes About Diversity

A name is a marker of identity but there are markers we cannot change, like the color of our bodies.

Not all Americans talk like me. The states in America are kind of like your countries over here,

made the fact that we were Jews undeniable.

I need a real MAN-- so, I can be a Woman-- We are different for good reasons. We need each other like puzzle pieces. To inspire greatness in each other.

I don't want to be Jewish, I want to be British," she announces in early December.

Some kids prefer to engage with characters who are dealing with, say, bullying, gender identity, and racism outside the confines of the all-too-real world readers themselves live in.

We're stuck on this image of gay women as masculine and gay men as feminine, and we refuse to recognize that they look just like you and me. The black community is going to have to recognize that condemning these guys because they're gay is wrong.

But she found herself drawn to Ivy because he wasn't like her at all, wasn't like anyone, really. Most people were different because they wanted to be noticed. ivy was different because he couldn't be anyone else

Bilhassa bilmiyordum ki, hilkatin yaratt??? eserler nihayetsiz derecede çapra??k ve çeÅŸitlidir, çektiÄŸimiz bin türlü çileler bütün insanl???n yüzüne tükürmek hakk?n? bize vermez. Günahkar bir insanl??a k?z?nca, Nuh'la ailesini kurtararak neslini tüketmeden cezaland?rmak suretiyle bizzat Allah da bunu anlatm??t?.

To consider, Is this man of our own or an alien? is a mark of little-minded persons; but the whole earth is of kin to the generous-hearted.*

And gun-owning truck drivers in Louisiana have more in common with trishul-wielding Hindus in India, bearded Islamists in Pakistan, and nationalists and populists elsewhere, than any of them realize.

Pankaj Mishra (#iampm)

Odessa è insieme Istanbul e Lisbona, Pietroburgo e Trieste.

Passare dal norvegese al russo è cambiare mondo (...); trionfano le i, frequenti e variegate come le betulle.

Sulla parete, un'icona di San Nicola convive senza problemi con le tette di una bionda da calendario per camionisti.

L'alterco si spegne, i due si guardano, poi scoppiano a ridere. Uno dice: "Egyna Tourkos", mi sono infuriato come un turco. L'altro: "Scusa, mi sono comportato come un Vlaho", un montanaro. Ecco, la Grecia è anche questo. Eraclito che scrive: "Da ciò che è in lotta nasce la più bella armonia. Tutto si realizza attraverso la discordia".

Çok, çok olduklar? ölçüde, "kendini evinde hissetmeme" duygusunu paylaÅŸanlar ve asl?nda bu deneyimi kendi toplumsal ve politik pratiklerinin merkezine yerleÅŸtirenlerden oluÅŸur.

I am different. Let this not upset you.

The civility we need will not come from watching our tongues. It will come from valuing our differences.

We find common bonds in the shared details of the human journey, not in the divergent conclusions we draw from those details.

The writer Anne Lamott says, "You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."28

Alice Kaplan is a teacher of French language and literature, and she has done this kind of remembering in a book called French Lessons. "Why do people want to adopt another culture?" she asks as she summarizes her journey into teaching and into life. "Because there's something in their own they don't like, that doesn't name them."5

No habit of the heart is more crucial to making "We the People" a reality than extending hospitality to those who appear alien to us.

American democracy at its best is like that island of restored prairie. In a world where human diversity is often suppressed—where authoritarian regimes have kept people lined up like rows of cultivated corn, harvesting their labor and sometimes their lives to protect the interests of the state—the diversity that grows in a democracy delights the heart as well as the eye.