Quotes About Diversity

America! America! God shed His grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!

And without shared culture, civilization is doomed.

My Canada includes Quebec—but its license plates no longer call it La belle province. I can't remember what they say now.

Neanderthals are human," said Mary. "We're congeners; we all belong to the genus Homo. Homo habilis, Homo erectus, Homo antecessor—if you believe that's a legitimate species—Homo heidelbergensis, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo sapiens. We're all humans." "I concede the point," said Krieger, with a nod. "What should we call ourselves to distinguish us from them?" "Homo sapiens sapiens," said Mary.

Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter mush. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.

In a society that rejects absolute truth, the only vice that cannot be tolerated is the sin of intolerance.

The world does not need white people to civilize others. The real White People's Burden is to civilize ourselves.

More broadly, most of us believe that we have arrived at many of our deeply held beliefs through careful thought and do not want to recognize that if we had been brought up by different parents, let alone in a different society, our fundamental values and attitudes would be very different.

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?

You have a valid complaint, and I do recognize it ... but you are reading into things a little bit. Just the same, I will do my best to make horrible things happen to a bunch of white people before something else so graphic hits a minority character.

Definitely not a Gertrude.

The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

the task of the ethnographer is not to determine "the truth" but to reveal the multiple truths apparent in others' lives.

Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is.

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.

What the continents had in common was far less important than what was different. To be successful on the peaks it was more important to learn intuitively and adapt to the new cultures and climbing conditions, than to ascend relying on past experience.

she did not want to have to explain to him that while the world was fighting a so-called "master race" intent on ruthlessly exterminating people that they judged inferior or impure, America itself was still a stronghold of racism and discrimination.

A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.

I never felt myself an expatriate or anything but an American, but not through some excess of patriotism. My country is much too polyglot of race, type, and variety of faith, political and otherwise, for me to discover exactly to which qualities one would have to remain loyal in order to be a hundred per cent American.

Difference for the sake of difference is as empty an achievement as slavishly following the commercial imperative. Write only what you believe.

A veces la vida se pone difícil cuando tu perfil no coincide con el de todos los demás.

objects, including fans and vases and folding chairs and clothes.

Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.