Quotes About Diversity

Of all the attempts over the centuries to place humans in distinct races, none succeeds.

Not only were we diverse in our skin color long before the dispersal from Africa, we were diverse in our skin color before we were our own species.

What we can also say with an arsenal of scientific ammunition is that though skin color is the first and most obvious way we see humans, it's a superficial route to an understanding of human variation, and a very bad way to classify people.

All abilities are evolved, which doesn't mean that they all have common roots.

Irish, Welsh and Scots like to claim Celtic genetic genealogy, despite the fact that 'Celtic' isn't a coherent ancestral population, and cultural similarities betray the fact that according to the latest genetic data, those three groupings are frequently more similar to mainland English people than they are to each other.

Go back to where you come from," someone told me on Twitter last year, and I did indeed drive up the highway to Ipswich to visit my folks for the weekend.

For our purposes, if we are to look at the evolution that led to where we are now, instead of the nice neat tree, I think it could reasonably be described as one big million-year clusterfuck. Whenever humans met - Sapiens, Neanderthal, Denisovans - they had sex. What a time to be alive.

There's no trace of genetic fair skin between those two dates.

from the point of view of a geneticist, race does not exist. It has no useful scientific value.

Despite our differences, all humans are remarkably close relatives, and our family tree is pollarded, and tortuous, and not in the slightest bit like a tree. But we are the fruit thereof.

In fact, sexual acts between members of the same sex abound in nature, in thousands of animals, and, for example, may well dominate male giraffe sexual encounters.

You haven't played a boring game of checkers until you've played the one where the red and black pieces get along. They don't even just one another. They just circle the board and sing.

I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that.

33When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not wrong him. 34The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as one of your citizens; you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt:

I love that I never know who I'm going to meet next in New York. Sometimes I imagine all these millions of kids who have come here like jeweled doorknobs marked "turn me." It's an Alice-in-Wonderland kind of city.

Maybe, it was incredulity that two people could go through something together but still see it so differently.

You may be right in believing that if you study hard, one day you might become fluent in English. But you will still look Chinese, and when people meet you, they'll see a Chinese girl no matter how well you speak English. You'll always be expected to know Chinese, and if you don't, I'm afraid they will not respect you as much.

If anything is clear, it is that a rigid, unchanging way is wrong.

Freedom rings where opinions clash.

I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.

Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

A people that fails to preserve the purity of its racial blood thereby destroys the unity of the soul of the national in all its manifestations. A disintegrated national character is the inevitable consequence of a process of disintegration in the blood.