Quotes About Diversity

This is a historically black community," said Lynn Hendy, president of the property owners association. "I'd like it to stay that way."127

Let's be honest about the fact that many of us from all races are racist. . . . We've lied about progress."132

As the researchers noted, single people are more willing to live in mixed neighborhoods, but people with children seek homogeneity.84

My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff.

Amazing tributaries feeding where the rivers will never flow....

No matter what side of an argument you're on, you always find some people on your side that you wish were on the other side.

I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public relations.

I don't much care who is gay or straight or married or not. I mostly notice if they are brave enough to confront bigotry.

But the bigger point is that most non-English speakers are in weak schools no matter the language of instruction. Nationally, English-language learners drop out at about twice the average rate.

The tiny Emirates has more than eight million migrants—more than Canada, France, Australia, or Spain. A rags-to-riches story on a nation-state scale, it was a sleepy patch of desert until the 1960s, when it discovered it held 9 percent of the world's oil.

No country relies on migrants more than the United Arab Emirates, where 88 percent of the population and nearly the entire private workforce is foreign-born.

The earlier immigrants were virtually all poor, whereas nearly a third of today's are college graduates like Rosalie. More than one in eight has a graduate degree—slightly more than natives.

One way to do that is to be wary of seeing the issue in absolutist terms. Immigration is generally good for America. But that doesn't mean it's good at every level and in all varieties. America's absorptive capacity is great but not unlimited, and not every migrant is as easily absorbed as Rosalie. There's a place for principled compromise. Legal status for the Dreamers is crucial; the diversity lottery is not.

There is no magic number of immigrants, just as there is no perfect mix of high-skilled, low-skilled, relatives, and refugees. What is essential is that America welcome those who are here and remain receptive to the gifts others can bring, whether they come with distinguished degrees or calloused hands.

Since 2008, the United States has attracted more Asians than Latin Americans, and nearly half of the newcomers, like Rosalie, have college degrees. Every corner of America has an immigrant like her.

his mother collapsed at the news that her son had married a shiksa.

You don't make a great museum by putting all the art in the world into a single room. That's a warehouse.

The world has never been smaller and markets have never been more open. Don't be a cultural or geographical hermit.

Instead of thinking I can pay people from Kansas less than people from New York, you should think I can get amazing people from Kansas and make them feel valued and well

Geography just doesn't matter anymore. Hire the best talent, regardless of where it is.

They were always Albanians. You know what that means. Some Catholics, some Orthodox. And some, in time, were Muslims, too. But the first religion of the Albanian, as they say, is Albania.

Ata ishin gjithmonë shqiptarë. Ti e di se çfarë do të thotë. Disa katolikë, disa ortodoksë. Dhe disa, në kohë, ishin myslimanë. Por feja e parë e shqiptarëve, siç thonë ata, është Shqipëria

You have to understand that we're basically a company of misfits and people who didn't fit in anywhere else," he proclaimed. "That's what makes the company so great. We were all lucky to find the place where we belonged.

Steve Jobs frequently said, "Apple is an Ellis Island kind of company built on refugees from other companies. These are the extremely bright individual contributors who were troublemakers at other companies.