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Quotes About Diversity

I think people want to live in a city that is welcoming and inclusive. I don't think people want to feel that they can only go into a place with a rainbow flag in front.
~ Ayanna Pressley
France is very welcoming to foreign writers.
~ Israel Horovitz
You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind.
~ Lauren Bacall
Americans are accustomed to welcoming, or at least receiving, refugees from other countries, not creating our own.
~ Andrei Codrescu
I am so proud to call myself Canadian! Thank you, Canada, for welcoming me with open arms!
~ Sondra Radvanovsky
It's important to me to defend the Canadian colours. And I don't just do it in tennis. I might now follow hockey as much as the average Canadian, but I support several Canadian teams. I'm a big fan of the Toronto Raptors. On top of that, I love my country, simple as that. It's a magnificent country; the people are really welcoming.
~ Milos Raonic
There was a time when I was knocking on doors and concerned with being recognized in dominant culture. I've found a space where the terrain is different, where I'm embraced by people like me, and where I'm building new ways of doing things, as opposed to trying to insert myself in a place that might not be welcoming.
~ Ava DuVernay
'Warcraft' has always had a far higher percentage of women players than a lot of other games. It has always been a very welcoming environment for women.
~ Duncan Jones
That's one of the great things about Los Angeles, that people just play music, and it's all very welcoming and welcomed.
~ Fred Armisen
In Hollywood as well as other countries, there's an increasing number of films that women can lead in, which is really welcoming news, and I'm really happy to be able to film a women-centric movie.
~ Shin Min-a
Democrats should be welcoming to anyone who shares our general values.
~ Michael Capuano
I'm really glad to have become a Russian citizen. Russia's such a welcoming country, and many people in the world want to become her citizens.
~ Roy Jones Jr.
The Conservative party under my leadership will continue to be an inclusive, welcoming party that welcomes not only immigrants but also refugees and ensures that Canada plays its role in welcoming people from difficult situations.
~ Andrew Scheer
It certainly could be that there are prejudices around. I can only speak to what I have lived, and I have experienced that people have been incredibly welcoming to me as a Jewish Republican.
~ Eric Greitens
We want gaming and e-sports to be something that is welcoming and appropriate for everybody who wants to come and watch.
~ Michael Morhaime
The United States - and Vermont in particular - has a history of welcoming people of all cultures and backgrounds.
~ Phil Scott
But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
If what I read doesn't reflect my life - whether I'm gay or Latino or on welfare - doesn't that really mean that my life is not valuable?
~ Walter Dean Myers
My message on immigration is that the people who want to come to this country, by and large, even those who have done it illegally, are coming for the right reasons, not to take advantage of our welfare system.
~ Blake Farenthold
When you're a Republican Latino, you're traveling uphill on a lonely road. Still, it's the road I prefer. It has led me to opportunity far beyond my dreams. I've worked on eight Republican presidential races, as well as for some of the world's largest corporations, all because the doors of opportunity, not the doors of welfare, were open to me.
~ Lionel Sosa
I'm not the Eritrean welfare minister and not the Sudanese labor minister.
~ Eli Yishai
I lived in a low-income Black community, grew up with kids on welfare and with Black folks driving Cadillacs, going to private schools and everything in between. My literal biological aunties are deeply religious. I got it all.
~ Maya Wiley
I don't like it when I see a racist comedian go up and say, 'What are we gonna do about all these immigrants?' and they get a round the applause. I think, 'Well that's not a joke. That's just your biased opinion.'
~ Ricky Gervais
Beauty comes in all forms. It's not just external; it's internal as well.
~ Alessia Cara