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Quotes About Diversity

I want all the books on the shelves. I want the books with dinosaur words like nigger that show the skeletons in our national closet. I want books with the word cunt as well as the word kike. Words don't scare me. Suppressing them does.
~ E.L. Konigsburg
Mrs. Olinski was the first teacher Epiphany ever had who taught from a wheelchair.
~ E.L. Konigsburg
I chose a brunette, a redhead, a blond, and a kid with hair as black as print on paper.
~ E.L. Konigsburg
There is not a thought that is being thought in the West or the East that is not active in some Indian mind
~ E.P. Thompson
In the free world (Natopolis) the centres of ideological orthodoxy are rarely defined. The diversity of intellectual trends within the orthodoxy, the indeterminate and shifting character of its boundaries, the existence of real centres of dissent (and the licence given to even Stalinist opposition)--all these conspire to create the central illusion of Natopolitan culture, that there is in fact no orthodoxy but only an infinite variety of opinions among which one is free to choose.
~ E.P. Thompson
God has spoken, at sundry times as well as in. diverse manners And if we are to understand what He has spoken we must learn to distinguish, not only the various peoples whom He has spoken, but the sundry times at which He has spoken to them, and also the. diverse manners.
~ E.W. Bullinger
I've just come to the conclusion that all women should wear whatever they want to wear and that all men should wear whatever they want to wear. If they have a problem with that, they should take it up with United Nations.
~ Eddie Izzard
We need to become more open minded to the idea that many of us exist on a spectrum - a continuum - of gender. That for some of us the choice isn't just one or the other - completely male or completely female - but often a combination of both. In fact, it seems there are three different lines on the sexuality spectrum: how you self identify, who you're attracted to, and what you look like. And it seems the dial can be at any place on any of those three lines.
~ Eddie Izzard
If you are an LGBT+ person and you come out, you have to go through your knight's quest to create ground for yourself, to stand there and say, 'I exist. I have no reason to feel guilt or shame. I am proud to exist, and while I'm not perfect, I deserve to exist in society just like anyone else.
~ Eddie Izzard
It doesn't matter what sex or sexuality, how you identify or who you fancy - it matters not one whit. What do you do in life? What do you create? What do you add to the human existence - that is what matters.
~ Eddie Izzard
Even though America loves baseball, (American) football, and basketball, I feel it is the ultimate American game, really, because it's a pure meritocracy, and that is what America was designed as.
~ Eddie Izzard
hiperespecialización1 impide ver la globalidad (al fragmentarla en parcelas) y también la esencia (al disolverla).
~ Edgar Morin
In that little party there was not one who would desert another; yet we were of different countries, different colours, different races, different religions--and one of us was of a different world.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
P56-his reason told him that he was of a different race from his wild and hairy companions
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
avoiding the crumbling driveway, whose variously
~ Edie Claire
for no border severs man from man, or one manner of living totally from another.
~ Edith Pargeter
Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.
~ Edith Wharton
She sang, of course, M'ama! and not he loves me, since an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.
~ Edith Wharton
I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
~ Edith Wharton
Original! We're all as like each other as those dolls cut out of the same folded paper. We're like patterns stenciled on a wall. Can't you and I strike out for ourselves, May?
~ Edith Wharton
The value of books is proportionate to what may be called their plasticity -- their quality of being all things to all men, of being diversely moulded by the impact of fresh forms of thought.
~ Edith Wharton
Don't let us be like all the others! she protested.
~ Edith Wharton
Ali znate, nas dve smo toliko razli?ite: ona voli da bude dobra, a ja volim da budem sre?na.
~ Edith Wharton
In this partnership all men have equal rights; but not to equal things.
~ Edmund Burke