Quotes About Diversity

No, I don't think there's systemic racism.

There is no question that the Green Party has work to do in addressing racism, anti-Semitism, systemic discrimination in all its forms.

Sometimes you do not see white faces when you think of poverty. That leads to lots of stigmas, systemic racism and all that.

Canada is so far behind on issues related to systemic racism.

Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.

The beauty of the free market is that everyone gets what they want. With governmentally imposed systems, it is always one size fits all.

Democratic systems based on the concept of a homogeneous nation such as England are very definitely not applicable to heterogeneous countries such as India, and this simple fact is the root cause of India's constitutional ills.

Nobody is so weird others can't identify with them.

It seems to me if we all just did what we're good at, the planet would average out to okay.

She complained there was no 'café au lait'-colored construction paper for her skin, or 'sixty-percent-cacao-chocolate' color for her eyes. I remember staring at her while these words came out of her mouth, and thinking, Your skin is light brown. Your eyes are dark brown. Why don't you just use brown, you idiot? Jay Stringer didn't complain about the paper, and neither did any of the other ten kids using brown.

For many of us it seems that to be a feminist in the way that we have seen or understood feminism is to conform to an identity and way of living that doesn't allow for individuality, complexity, or less than perfect personal histories. We fear that the identity will dictate and regulate our lives, instantaneously pitting us against someone, forcing us to choose inflexible and unchanging sides, female against male, black against white, oppressed against oppressor, good against bad.

Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed.

It is always dangerous to view our collective lives without the benefit of history or without regard to diversity among us.

Ethnic minorities were 10 times more likely than whites to eat at a table where they were the only representative of their race.

I never had a set of rules. Every situation is different.

Never embrace a version of the gospel that doesn't require you to do life with someone who isn't like you.

Evidently, God has a sense of humor because He created a wide variety of people who have different outlooks when it comes to the amount of structure and order they prefer.

I'm just really thankful to have the chance to portray a character you don't see every day.

From Greenland's icy mountains,From India's coral strand,Where Afric's sunny fountainsRoll down their golden sand.

Difference is not the opposite of harmony but its condition.

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models.

Rien ne s'y trouve formé, parce que toutes les formes y sont possibles.