Quotes About Diversity

BELL HOOKS: "I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer. I think the worst thing that can happen to us is to lose sight of the power of empathy and compassion." MAYA

If we could shrink the earth's population to a village of only 100 people, it would look something like this: There would be 57 Asians 21 Europeans 14 North and South Americans 8 Africans 30 white 70 nonwhite 6 people would possess 59% of the world's wealth, and all 6 would be from the United States 80 would live in substandard housing 70 would be unable to read 50 would suffer malnutrition 1 would have a college education 1 would own a computer

Thus, he says, those who would "eliminate from the universe" what they think of as "inferior beings" would simply "eliminate Providence itself," whose nature it is to "produce all things and to diversify all in the manner of their existence.

They most definitely and strongly believed that it is universally true that there is no universal truth.

So perhaps we can learn to value the differences between the male and female value spheres. Those differences, even according to the radical feminists, appear to be here for good—but we can learn to value them with more equal emphasis. How to do so is one of the things we might want to talk about.

But in the early 1970s, we were not birdwatching. We were birding, and that made all the difference. We were out to seek, to discover, to chase, to learn, to find as many different kinds of birds as possible — and, in friendly competition, to try to find more of them than the next birder. We became a community of birders, with the complications that human societies always have; and although it was the birds that had brought us together, our story became a human story after all.

I had figured out something that seemed important: every bird had its place. None was "free as a bird." A few kinds were found all over the continent, but they were the exceptions.

In the 21st century, culture is power.

Never lose heart in the power of the gospel. Do not believe that there exists any man, much less any race of men, for whom the gospel is not fitted.

Rock music is quite big in India - but it mostly just replaces all the intricacies of Indian rhythms and Indian melody with lumpen rock drumming and power chords.

There is no longer any religion when there is no longer any privileged religion. Take from religion its exclusive power and it will no longer exist.

The same power is in every man, the one manifesting more, the other less; the same potentiality is in everyone.

There's all different kinds of people, but I don't think it's that unusual that once you get like a little power, you get to do your weird thing even more.

There is great variation in brain power all the way from Einstien on one hand to Sarah Palin on the other.

Clean energy is hippy power. But its also cowboy power, it's rancher power, it's Appalachian power.

Don't make fun of people who are different. Unless they have more money and influence. Then you must

I've been blessed with the opportunity to express the views of black people who otherwise don't have access to power and the media. I have to take advantage of that while I'm still bankable.

But remember: All this talk of tolerance and diversity is basically just a way for one group of white people to pursue power over other groups of white people. It's not about actually helping anyone.

The beautiful thing about L.A. is that you have 50 countries in one county. Diversity brings power and muscle.

I think whites are used to being in power, so when whites think we ought to have integrated churches they think, "People ought to come to our church. What can we do to get them to come?"

If there is one thing in this planet that has the power to bind people it is soccer.

I don't believe any genre of music can be unilaterally dismissed (aside from like, white-power music or something).

For an author to show that only traditional male power and place matter is to discount and belittle the hard and complex lives of our peers and our ancestresses.

The power which works through the formative principles of every religion in every country is manifested in the forms of religion. . .