Quotes About Diversity

It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Aceptar y respetar la diferencia es una de esas virtudes sin las cuales la escucha no se puede dar" (Paulo Freire)

Foi me confrontando com o diferente de mim que descobri mais facilmente a minha própria identidade.

One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.

The Languages, Peoples and History of the U.S.S.R.

Y nos arrancamos del Municipal como chicas reacias a la cultura de salón. Igual fue bonito conocer estas elegancias, dije tomando a la Gladucha del brazo. Pero nosotras somos más folclóricas, Pedrín. Y rockeras, agregué con una mirada rebelde. Y cumbiancheras, acentuó mi reina con su risa de cascabel que me sigue sonando en el ayer, tan fresca y libertaria como una cascada de pájaros.

As we have become more open minded (tolerant) in society we have become more closed hearted.

How could he try to get Sandi to reveal her true colors when she was a rainbow?

I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing.

She read to find out what it was like to be French or Russian in the nineteenth century, to be a rich New Yorker then, or a Midwestern pioneer. She read to discover how not to be Charlotte, how to escape the prison of her own mind, how to expand, and experience.

Proselytizing is a moral imperative and feeds the marketplace of ideas. I want to hear everyone tell the truth as they see it. I want to learn from everyone.

There is no god." I've said that sentence on Glenn Beck's TV show in front of his live audience at his studio in the Texas Bible Belt. I've told Republicans that I like immigrants. I've told Democrats that I dig rich people. I've told sane people that I like lawyers. But

People are people, Meg, no matter what their skin color is or how much money they have or what country they come from. We all breathe and feel joy and pain. We all hate and love and laugh and cry and bleed. And no matter how different we may be on the outside, God loves us all and never leaves us.

Hvis Lone kom fra et hjem med klaver og jeg fra et hjem med kinopiano, er Marianne fra et hjem med munnharpe.

People should know, understand that not all Thursdays are the same.

If astronomy teaches anything, it teaches that man is but a detail in the evolution of the universe, and the resemblant though diverse details are inevitably to be expected in the hosts of orbs around him. He learns that, though he will probably never find his double anywhere, he is destined to discover any number of cousins scattered through space.

It is not a merit to tolerate, but rather a crime to be intolerant.

We—are we not formed, as notes of music are, For one another, though dissimilar; Such difference without discord, as can make Those sweetest sounds, in which all spirits shake As trembling leaves in a continuous air?

cada uno a su casa y Dios a la de todos

Contrary to a great number of priests and other godly types, queer does not mean castrated.

Sports (and the often barely withheld violence around them) have become one of the few modern ways to connect with strangers. They give an amazing number of geeks things to talk about. In the old days we settled for, "Hello, how are you?"

Start a conversation with someone with whom you have "nothing in common" and no possibility of scoring with, networking with, or even seeing again. In other words, a conversation just for the civilized hell of it.

I'm crazy about my father, he's an amazing man, a real adventurer. He took us with him to travel all over the world. We were in places that were so remote, that white people hardly ever reach them.