Quotes About Diversity

It's not that gays and diversity equal high technology. But if your culture is not such that it can accept difference, and uniqueness and oddity and eccentricity, you will not get high tech industry.

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The places that thrive today are those with the highest velocity of ideas, the highest density of talented and creative people, and the highest rate of metabolism. "Velocity" and "density" are not words many people use when describing suburbia.

Whether we find it appealing or not is another question, but personally I like being fourth cousin to a mushroom and having a bonobo as my closest living relative. It makes me feel a part of the world.

It is not necessary to be large to be a perfectly good arthropod (or mollusc, come to that).

Not that I subscribe to the utilitarian view that plants are only good for what we can get out of them—it should be enough to add another beautiful (or even plain) item to nature's inventory. We need to know what there is in the world for us to look after, regardless of its potential use.

Billions of people don't practice a religion at all.

Legal segregation was long gone, but a strong tradition prevailed in both communities that it was best to live separately.

Here, race was so difficult and complicated, it was a kaleidoscope you could keep on turning.

One person was excommunicated for buying a kosher chicken from an Ashkenazi butcher rather than a Sephardic one.

Private relationships, intimate and otherwise, might be structured in many different ways, and the simple dichotomy between "single" and "married" does not do justice to what people might choose.

No more than 25 percent of the guests at a university dinner party can come from the economics department without spoiling the conversation.

One would say that, instead of a tendency to equality in human beings, the tendency is to make the most of inequalities, natural or artificial.

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There is a split between Muslims who want to practice their faith in peace and tolerance with other religions and other people, and these extreme, radical fundamentalists who have shown a total lack of tolerance for people with different views, starting with people who they don't think are good Muslims, and going on to include Christians and Jews.

The world was created for Mankind, not for some of mankind.

Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.

Todos volvieron hacia Neville los rostros pálidos. Neville los observó serenamente. Y de pronto comprendió. Yo soy el anormal ahora. La normalidad es un concepto mayoritario. Norma de muchos, no de un solo hombre.

Birden, ÅŸimdi anormal olan benim, diye düÅŸündü. Normallik bir çoÄŸunluk kavram?yd?, çoÄŸunluÄŸun standard?, sadece bir insan?n deÄŸil.

Anyone who couldn't understand that what's important is a man's soul, not the color of his skin, would never be content here.

If we think only the thoughts that are customary to us, and listen only to the words of those who are of our mind, we are little likely to find refreshment and renewal in our minds, and thus all too likely to suppose that we have come to the end of all deliberations that we have to make.

Conformity is the enemy of friendship

I read because one life isn't enough, and in the pages of a book I can be anybody

We thought he was weird. He thought we were weird. It was great. It was what multiculturalism ought to be -Archer