Quotes About Diversity

Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born and rais'd in Ocean's pearly caves First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass, Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass; These, as successive generations bloom, New powers acquire, and larger limbs assume; Whence countless groups of vegetation spring, And breathing realms of fin, and feet and wing.

Limbaji grinned widely and reached for a stone. "But this is what different religions mean," he said, placing the stone on the ground. "God is for all men, he is always the same. There is only one. And all men finally go to the same God." He drew lines toward the stone in the dust. "But there are different roads." From

Birthright citizenship remains an eloquent statement about the nature of American society and a repudiation of a long history of equating citizenship with whiteness.

The Fourteenth Amendment was a crucial step in transforming, in the words of the Republican editor George William Curtis, a government "for white men" into one "for mankind."34

The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.

Mito e invenção são essenciais à política de identidade pela qual grupos de pessoas, ao se definirem hoje por etnia, religião ou fronteiras nacionais passadas ou presentes, tentam encontrar alguma certeza em um mundo incerto e instável, dizendo: Somos diferentes e melhores do que os Outros.

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

A woman can plan. A woman thinks she needs a man for nothing in this world but soon realizes she is wrong. The same way every black- owned business has to acquire goods from a white distributor, women have to do business with men, be it professional or personal, to achieve too many of our goals.

Your hair--it's kind of wavy. Indian in your blood, or are you a hypocrite and texturize your hair? He hesitated, appeared uneasy, then said, My mother is black and my father is white. Your a brown-skinned Drake and didn't vote for your cousin Obama?

A woman of European heritage sporting a preacher's collar had the opposite effect of a Muslim woman wearing a hijab. She used her privilege and the favored religion to look like a golden child.

black woman in the room feels invisible.

Yup. Every black girl has to have a white Barbie doll. Black girls will get a black Barbie, but they have to have a white Barbie. The black Barbie never really seems like a true Barbie, not like the queen.

we exist today because this is how our ancestors behaved. We evolve today by ensuring that our definition of our group os wide enough to take advantage of diversity and narrow enough to be actionable.

In India even the most mundane inquiries have a habit of ending this way. There may be two answers, there may be five, a dozen or a hundred; the only thing that is certain is that all will be different.

Some people, were born to sit by a river. Some get struck by lightning. Some have an ear for music. Some are artists. Some swim. Some know buttons. Some know Shakespeare. Some are mothers. And some people, dance.

I'll be looking for patriotic, honorable, bright young men from the right backgrounds to manage the various departments. In other words, no Jews or Negroes, and very few Catholics, and that's only because I'm a Catholic.

Mixing languages is better than writing everything in one, if and only if using only that one is likely to overcomplicate the program.

It is less important whether we worship the holy spirit in the form of a tree, a woman, a man, or an animal than that we do worship and honor it. At the same time, we must accord each other the right to atheism or agnosticism - for religion becomes little more than fascism if it is compelled rather than self-motivated.

Avec monsieur Ibrahim, je me rendais compte que les juifs, les musulmans et même les chrétiens, ils avaient eu plein de grands hommes en commun avant de se taper sur la gueule.

Mia?em okazj? ogl?da? fabryk? w formie panoramicznej: azjatyccy robotnicy w maskach, czapkach, wystrojeni w turkusowe bluzy byli ca?kiem do siebie podobni. Zadr?a?em... Czy taki w?a?nie by? nasz los? Wydaje nam si?, ?e jeste?my nadzwyczajni, chocia? pochodzimy z tej samej formy? Podobni nawet w przekonaniu o swojej wyj?tkowo?ci...

To wyobra?nia wyró?nia, wyobra?nia przeÅ'amuje pospolito??, powtarzalno??, jednolito??. W przeznaczeniu zabawek dostrzegÅ'em przeznaczenie ludzi: tylko wyobra?nia, tworzÄ…c fikcjÄ™ i wymarzone wiÄ™zi, rodzi coÅ› oryginalnego. Bez niej bylibyÅ›myy podobni, zbyt podobni, zbli?eni do siebie, rozpÅ'aszczeni jeden na drugich w koszach rzeczywistoÅ›ci.

Do pogardy dla wierzÄ…cego dochodzi pogarda dla dzikusa. (...) Oto co myÅ›lÄ… te nasze trze?we umysÅ'y! Po co oÅ›wieca? tubylca? Po co pozbawia? go korzeni, oferujÄ…c mu ateizm? Có? by na tym zyskaÅ' w tym wrogim Å›rodowisku? W rzeczywistoÅ›ci uwa?ajÄ…, ?e to normalne, gdy modli siÄ™ Afrykanin, lecz irytujÄ…ce, gdy robi to Europejczyk, poniewa? ich zdaniem Europejczyk jest lepszy od Afrykanina.

Ma la donna non è un uomo evirato, e la sua sessualità è tipicamente femminile e non di natura maschile.

Life is richness in many forms. We should all find our own.