Quotes About Diversity

O brave new world,That has such people in't!

I will not jump with common spiritsAnd rank me with the barbarous multitude.

What he hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit.

For several virtuesHave I lik'd several women.

Nature hath fram'd strange fellows in her time.

The chameleon's dish: I eat the air, promisecrammed; you cannot feed capons so.

Peace shall go sleep with Turks and infidels.

Motley's the only wear.

both of us were raised in lower-middle-class Orthodox Jewish immigrant families

The thread that has run through my life is loneliness. Even as a child I was never part of a group. I don't know why. It was not by choice. Maybe because I was Jewish in a predominantly non-Jewish school. But I was fighting all the time. I had very few friends.

If you don't know the kind of person I am and I don't know the kind of person you are a pattern that others made may prevail in the world and following the wrong god home we may miss our star. ... And as elephants parade holding each elephant's tail, but if one wanders the circus won't find the park, I call it cruel and maybe the root of all cruelty to know what occurs but not recognize the fact.

some historians now say there is no single history at all—just a multitude of histories, one for each region, language, family, industry, class, and race.

It points, for instance, to the fact that there is never an abstract, single 'Christian answer' to an issue to which all Christians are bound to adhere or conform.

Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one of these groups? If we believed in the tooth fairy, if we believed in the Easter Bunny, we might well believe that.

We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all.

In spite of difference of soil and climate, of language and manners, of laws and customs—in spite of things silently gone out of mind, and things violently destroyed, the Poet binds together by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society, as it is spread over the whole earth, and over all time.

Feeling comes in aid Of feeling, and diversity of strength Attends us, if but once we have been strong.

There's a great enthusiasm for good country music all over the world.

I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there's a lot of money being spent toward the young guys, but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys.

There is no such thing as a normal person. There is just you and me." - Willie Nelson

Willie O'Ree

Say what you want without saying it yourself: quote. Very useful, this, sometimes lovely, and versatile, too: big thoughts in small pieces, neatly wrapped and bundled in bulk, in different flavors for different tastes.

[D]ifferent people have different quotational gravity.

An Indian is an Indian regardless of the degree of Indian blood or which little government card they do or do not possess.