Quotes About Diversity

The minute you have more than one voice, you have more possibilities opening up. You have all the molecules in all of those bodies and their make up interacting.

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

One man's religion is another man's belly laugh.

reality is always plural and mutable.

Our core identity—the most precious legacy we have been given by the generations who came before us—is the ideals we share, the good we hold in common. If we are losing our national identity, it is not because we are becoming browner or speak in more languages than we once did. It is because we are losing our sense of the common good.

Rather than come together for the common good, we come together to get the best possible deal. We're clustering by income—attracting members who can contribute the most while excluding those who are more costly.

The probability that a black student will have white classmates has dropped to what it was before 1954, when the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education declared separate schools inherently unequal.

Therefore, when children of different racial groups are thrown into the incessant, harsh competition of the standard American classroom, we ought to—and do—see hostilities worsen.

the recipe for disharmony was quick and easy: Just separate the participants into groups and let sit for a while in their own juices.

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. —WALTER LIPPMANN I

Both our opinions are rooted in our experience," I said. "Both of them are true, it's just that we've had different experiences.

Get out of your ideological bubble. If most of the people you talk with agree with you, you're wasting your time. You need to engage with people who may disagree or who haven't thought hard about the issues. Reach across to independents, even to Republicans and self-styled Tea Partiers. Find people who are willing to listen to the facts and are open to arguments and ideas, regardless of the label they apply to themselves. We need them.

Let America be America again," pleaded Hughes: "The land that never has been yet— / And yet must be—the land where every man is free. / The land that's mine—the poor man's, Indian's, Negro's, ME—

Every house is built after a plan of its own: one looks in, another looks out; one is tall, another broad; and they are so irregular in height and outline that they seem as if they were all getting up out of bed at different hours in the morning, some not being yet quite up, while others are yawning and stretching themselves.

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world; those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes, and those who do not.

There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't.

There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't.

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Paris is many different things to many different people, but, for me it is simply "home".

The rage for 'identity' too often bespeaks a preference for simplicity rather than for complexity.

We are each a dozen people who were all the same child.

The human species is made up of seven billion subspecies each consisting of one specimen.

Let nothing be changed and all be different.

If language is lost, humanity is lost. If writing is lost, certain kinds of civilization and society are lost, but many other kinds remain - and there is no reason to think that those alternatives are inferior.