Quotes About Diversity

As Americans, we're not sure we share values. We're sometimes even afraid to use the word 'values.' We talk about teaching ethics in schools - people say, 'What ethics? Whose ethics? Maybe we can't.' And they confuse that with teaching of religion.

If a person wants to be publicly gay, they should not be teaching in the public schools.

It would be good if teachers could genuinely understand that black English is not mistakes, it's just different English, and that what you want to do is add an additional dialect to black students' repertoire rather than teaching them out of what's thought of as a bad habit, like sloppy posture or chewing with your mouth open.

Every day, whether I am teaching or entertaining - I absolutely love bringing different people and cultures together.

Just so that we are clear on this, I am in favour of teaching children about different beliefs. I am not in favour of indoctrinating them in any particular belief, including my own: these issues should be presented as beliefs, not as fact.

I'd love to see more middle and high school teachers who are not teaching English develop classroom libraries. Our message to kids should be that reading is for everyone.

My mom and my aunties are really devout Christians. My mom married a Muslim when I was 12, so I got teachings from both sides and then other sides because I wanted to find out which way to go. So not only Christianity and Islam, but Confucianism, Shintoism, Taoism, Buddhism, and Judaism. I tried to read everything.

You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

Once people come to Australia, they join the team.

When I started to play football, when I was around 15, 16, I remember the players that played on the national team and noticed that it was only typically Swedish guys.

Every team should have the chance to go on the podium, that would make it interesting. I believe that.

My Mother is Swedish and my Father is Scottish, he played for Charlton in the 1960's and was in the Army, he captained the British forces team. We then moved to S.A. because a lot of players did that at the time.

There needs to be more deliberate effort on the part of folks at VC firms to bring in a more diverse team of talent. You have to make a more concerted effort to bring in people who are different and who may not be in your network.

A football team is really just a reflection of society. You've got 118, 120 guys on the team, you got a little bit of everything.

When you're picking a basketball team, you'll take the brother over the guy with the yarmulke. Why? Because you're playing the odds.

We need to see not only leads of color, but contestants, people behind the scenes, people on the team, the Bachelor franchise as a whole.

I'm just saying if one team out of 30 goes small, that don't mean everybody else is doing it.

When I was really young, the women's national team wasn't on a grand media stage, so my role models were male basketball and male American football players.

I really believe that the raw ingredient of any creative business is the set of experiences that the team has, the set of skills. I think a simple fact is that if you have a different set of experiences based on how you grew up or how other people perceive you, or if you have a different set of skills, that will produce a better company.

As a scientist, you feel a sense of team spirit for your country but you also have a sense of team spirit for the international community.

I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport.

Fighting is a very independent thing, and it's not a team sport, and it's not the NFL, you know, because we don't have to look the same.

I would never tell anybody to give up hockey - the great sports we have here - basketball, lacrosse - rugby coming into its own - we've got so many great team sports, and I say hold on to them.