Quotes About Diversity

I've come to the point of view that for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that.

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter.

el "multiculturalismo" (y el "culturalismo en general), en su esfuerzo por proporcionar un apoyo académico (o, para ser más precisos, una pátina promocional) a la práctica multiculturalista, es en sí mismo un ejercicio de encubrimiento. Lo que intenta tapar y expulsar del debate público es la cruda realidad de la discriminación y la privación sociales.

Robbing humans of their faces and individuality is no less a form of evil than diminishing their dignity or looking for threats primarily among those who have immigrated or harbour different religious beliefs.

Anche se prendiamo strade diverse, se scopriamo possibilità differenti e torniamo dalla spedizione con esperienze diverse e quindi con soluzioni diverse, non dobbiamo ritenere che nessuna di esse sia inutile a priori, o escluderle in linea di principio solo per il fatto che sono diverse dalla nostra soluzione, inevitabilmente per noi preferibile.

Real dialogue isn't about talking to people who believe the same things as you.

The main point about civility is...the ability to interact with strangers without holding their strangeness against them and without pressing them to surrender it or to renounce some or all the traits that have made them strangers in the first place.

A place that proves if you get enough talented people in a room, one or two are bound to offer some helpful advice. Kind if like monkeys with typewriters.

Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.

Though the mass of mankind is a cacophony of fools, oafs, tyrants, and zealots, from that noise can arise the most beautiful of notes.

One measure of a civilization, in fact, is the percentage of misfits in its society.

Nearly anything that can be said about Hinduism can be contradicted by something else that is equally true about it, and nothing whatever that is said about it can be entirely true or entirely false

The human mind is one-sided. It can never grasp all of reality at once. When we look at things we see either the features which they have in common or the features that distinguish each of them.

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

Achievement has no color

God must have loved the plain people; He made so many of them.

The more sects we have the better. They are all getting somebody in (to the Church) that the others could not: and even with the numerous divisions we are all doing tolerably well.

We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty... We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. --April 18, 1864 Address at Baltimore

How this is possible is, first, by being, literally, several in a single body. "We are twelve in my body. We are packed like sardines." In other words, the being that I am exists each time in several modes—or, let us say, several beings, which, although sometimes mutually exclusive, are nevertheless inside one another.

Competing absolutisms respect each other more than either respects those who are allergic to absolutes as an absolute principle.

The sign at Starbucks should read "Friends are like snowflakes: more different and beautiful each time you cross their path in our common descent." For the final truth about snowflakes is that they become more individual as they fall; that, buffeted by wind and time, they are translated, as if by magic, into every stranger and more complex patterns, until at las they touch earth. Then, like us, they melt.

When social spaces begin to be created outside the direct control of the state (including commercial ones, run for profit), civil society can start to flourish in unexpected ways. Learning just to sip alongside a stranger makes for a potable kind of pluralism.

A Minnesota pastor was tarred and feathered because people overheard him praying in German with a dying woman.