Quotes About Diversity

I can't promise that every child with learning differences will become a novelist, but I do think all children can become lifelong readers.

Education is a bipartisan issue that concern all communities of color and should be first, last and always about the student learning.

Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.

We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all, both legal and economic justice.

I'm a child of immigrants. That is the history of this country. Immigration is good and important for our country. Legal immigration needs to really be modernized.

America is a nation of immigrants. And so the question is, how do we make legal immigration faster, less bureaucratic, cut the red tape?

Imagine a legal immigration system that welcomes and celebrates those who come to achieve the American dream.

There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

I consider myself a crayon... I may not be your favorite color but one day you'll need me to complete your picture.

It's fantastic because I've been living thousands of lives, not only my life.

People will make a life in their own terms, whether they are deaf or colorblind or autistic or whatever. And their world will be quite as rich and interesting and full as our world.

I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

Everyone we meet is a hero waiting to happen. When Jesus saw people, He envisioned their potential. No respecter of persons, He associated with people from all walks of life.

Ethnicity should enrich us; it should make us a unique people in our diversity and not be used to divide us.

I think there is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it.

It's very easy to become selfish and narrow-minded and see ballet as the only thing in life, but there's lots more.

A different language is a different vision of life.

Life's piano can only produce melodies of brotherhood (and sisterhood) when it is recognized that the black keys are as basic, necessary and beautiful as the white keys.

Invite people into your life who don't look or act like you. You might find they challenge your assumptions and make you grow.

I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.

No two snowflakes are alike.

Having Down syndrome is like being born normal. I am just like you and you are just like me. We are all born in different ways, that is the way I can describe it. I have a normal life.