Quotes About Diversity

There was political correctness, and then there was reality, and the reality was that people were people. -Mr. Perfect

You can't have good ideas unless you have lots of ideas.

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas.

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas

This probably also means that if and when we ever meet another intelligent life form in this universe, their first words are not likely to be Take me to our leader. They're more likely to say Party on, dude!

It is no less astonishing how many subjects—historical, philological, biological, sociological, economic—people regard as politics

Whoever is free from prejudice should be ready to face misunderstanding.

Jews are just like everyone else, only more so.

I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.

The wise do not classify. The wise do not want to be classified. Classifying people is not classy.

All happy families are alike, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way'?" "Anna Karenina.

So many think we must share the same beliefs to get along. In my experience, sharing the same fear is a far more effective strategy.

He's familiar, but he's not the same. He's an American whose family came from Haiti. My aunt, my sister, myself, we are Haitians who now live in America. He has never felt the ground shake beneath his feet. He doesn't understand that it can happen again.

The Internet is a microcosm of society.

Every society needs to examine itself in relation to other societies.

Society is not homogeneous, and those who do not deliberately close their eyes have to recognize that men differ greatly from one another from the physical, moral, and intellectual viewpoints.

A nation . . . is just a society for hating foreigners.

Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.

You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.

I couldn't quit, because of all the kids, and the blacks, and the little people pulling for me. I represent both the underdog and the overdog in our society.

as a society emphasizes and values some aspects of the total range of human potentials more than others, the valued aspects are associated closely with, and limited to, the dominant group's domain.

A 'multicultural society' is a logical and physical impossibility.

Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.