Quotes About Diversity

I think white artists have a responsibility to be not only naming white supremacy, but to be using their power and privilege to support artists of color.

All men are equal but their graces and abilities separates them and makes certain things possible for them than for others.

Some folks are forced to the edges by their difference. (...) But 'tis at the edges that they find their power.

In a world full of oddities, it's how you outdo yourself within your own schizophrenia of abnormalities, that determines your most interesting self.

The only color we must be cynical about is never skin color but, the color of character for what character can do, skin color may never be able to do.

I'm a Helian, and you're an Arcan. We're just made that way. I don't think we would ever be able to really understand each other.

I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.

Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.

I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road... all tongues and all prayers belong to me. But I belong to none of them.

God does not lead all His servants by one road, nor in one way, nor at one time; for God is in all things; and that man is not serving God aright, who can only serve Him in his own self-chosen way.

And my one prayer to God, the miracle worker, was that I would wake up lighter-skinned.

Americans suffer from mono-lingual myopia - a disease of the tongue that affects the vision.

The life of prayer is so great and various there is something in it for everyone. It is like a garden which grows everything, from alpines to potatoes.

In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.

There is no problem with the opening of new houses of prayer for Lutherans and Pentecostals.

Many Americans who are not fastened at the temples to a Christian prayer book are offended by politicians who justify their decisions by piously quoting the Old Testament.

The Saudis would struggle in Europe because of that problem with those prayers five times a day.

Let every man recognize what he is, and be certain that we are all equally priests, that is, we have the same power in the word and in any sacrament whatever.

Today there are more Muslims at prayer on Fridays in Britain, France, or Germany than there are Christians at mass or liturgy in those countries on Sundays.

I really appreciate leaders from around the globe who have come to share in prayer with us today. It reminds me that the Almighty God is a God to everybody, every person.

Sophistication called for a variety of talents and attitudes, but the minimum requirement was being in New York. Not all New Yorkers achieved it, but nobody elsewhere had a prayer.

Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.

If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

If you're lucky enough to be different, never change.