Quotes About Diversity

In the realm of thought majorities do not determine. Each brain is a kingdom, each mind is a sovereign.

In the presence of the unknown, all have an equal right to think.

In essence, we tend to sort each other and ourselves into groupings, and that usually leads to an overestimation of similarities between members of a group, and an underestimation of the similarities between insiders and outsiders.

Strike felt abnormally huge and hairy; a woolly mammoth attempting to blend in among capuchin monkeys.

She was black, too, or rather, a delicious shade of café au lait, and this, we were constantly told, represented progression an industry concerned merely with surfaces. (I am dubious: could it not be that, this season, café au lait was the 'in' shade? Have we seen a sudden influx of black women into the industry in Landry's wake? Have our notions of female beauty been revolutionised by her success? Are black Barbies now out-selling white?)

we tend to sort each other and ourselves into groupings, and that usually leads to an overestimation of similarities between members of a group, and an underestimation of the similarities between insiders and outsiders.

Being sworn at by random people was the price you paid for living in London,

there's one thing I 'ate, it's treating people diff'rent because of where they were born.

Why d'you think they feel the need to tell Londoners they're just as good? Isn't that a given?" "Just London, isn't it?" said Strike, as they crossed the road. "Pisses everyone off." "I love London." "Me too. But I can see why it pisses everyone off.

A masterpiece produced by an indecipherable cocktail of races, Kolovas-Jones's skin was

is inhabited by a Mrs. Buckle,four children,a fat black woman, and myself and a man.

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion.

As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.

Oh, honey, God don't care which church you go, long as you show up!

You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.

People and their values are almost infinitely diverse, and people will never agree on many elements of social arrangements that might be subjected to uniform rules of governance. Hence, the greater the scope of strictly individual self-determination, the lesser the scope of governance, and the greater the tolerance with which people live and let live among their fellows, the more peaceful and flourishing society will be

Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net containing bad and good.

Make sure that slow learners are rewarded—or at least not punished— for expressing their deviant views and acting in odd ways.

Nolan Bushnell, the founder and former CEO of the Atari Corporation, remarks that "sometimes the best engineers come in bodies that can't talk

Hire newcomers that other people in your company will dislike." David

If you hire people who prompt discomfort in yourself and others, take extra care to listen to their ideas and insist that others do so as well.

variation leads to excellence in social systems

variance in people, knowledge, activities, and organizational structures is crucial to creativity and innovation.

The women—who kept careful tallies—informed the CEO he had interrupted each of them at least six times but never interrupted the four male executive vice presidents. Stunned and embarrassed, the CEO begged for forgiveness, asked them to keep tracking his interruptions, and vowed to halt his sexist ways.