Quotes About Diversity

Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.

But on one occasion he was lost for words. 'If it's all as bad as you describe,' asked an inconspicuous young man at the end of one of the lectures, 'then why did you choose to become a Gypsy?' His image of Gypsies had marked them as a mere lifestyle, a fashion, a brand.

Le livre n'est qu'un miroir. Il nous renvoie à ce que nous sommes. C'est pour cela qu'un livre est adoré par certains et vomi par d'autres. Chacun y trouve sa part de sensibilité, sa part d'humanité. Le livre fait partie du rêve et le rêve est le père de tous les espoirs.

Every Jew in Palestine is a bit of an Arab, and no Arab in Israel can deny that he's a little Jewish.

los miembros de cada religión están convencidos de que su religión es la verdadera y todas las otras son falsas! Esta convicción conduce a los miembros de algunas religiones a tratar de convencer a otras personas a que compartan su teología.

The time was ordinary, 24 seconds, but the victory was historic. From that crowded little red house in Clarksville, out of an extended family of twenty-two kids, from a childhood of illness and leg braces, out of a small historically black college that had no scholarships, from a country where she could be hailed as a heroine and yet denied lunch at a counter, Skeeter had become golden, sweeping the sprints in Rome.

the Irish priests sometimes considered their French-Canadian counterparts primitives.)

Imagine - a thousand Eleanors ruling under a thousand suns.

But why must choices always lie along a linear spectrum with two poles instead of say among a sphere of possibilities

The problems that the world faces - from nuclear proliferation to climate change - can't be tackled by the West alone. They need a coalition of not just West and East, but they need a coalition of Christian and Jew and Muslim.

I mean, Britain is a country of successful Muslim businesspeople, teachers and educators, journalists. So, we have to say very strongly that the two million plus Muslims in Britain, the vast bulk of them make a huge contribution to our society, and they actually make it the vibrant society it is.

One thing that I feel very, very strongly is that we talk about Islamic countries, Islamic people, Islamic leaders, as either moderates or extremists. It's almost like there are only two categories of Muslims. And actually, that doesn't show respect. It shows lack of understanding of the diversity of Muslim thought.

Propelled to search for pockets of religious freedom, the Spanish exiles made their way to various corners of the Muslim Ottoman Empire, including Constantinople, Salonika, and Sarajevo. By the mid-sixteenth century, Constantinople had 50,000 Jews, a mix of Spanish exiles, native Jews known as Romaniot, Italians, and Ashkenazim who were organized into scores of religious communities

They might even speak colloquially and unscientifically of a Jewish "gene," for example, when expressing a measure of pride at the high percentage of Jewish Nobel laureates.

The problem with all these fiercely individualistic girls was that they were all exactly the same.

The tourist's paradox: how to find somewhere that's free of people exactly like us.

Yet whether a culture condemns or accepts homosexuality, heterosexuality prevails and homosexuality survives.

It may not be quite enough to find a nice inclusive Episcopal church led by Progressive White Cleric to replace the lily-white rocking megachurch led by Conservative White Guy in Jeans on Stage.

my own beloved sister, who is dearer to me than words can say and who came out as a lesbian

male/female sexual/gender complementarity.

That has excluded those who are unable to fulfill that prescription due to their sexual orientation.

Some say: all of the above.

There are millions of LGBTQ Christians.