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Quotes About Diversity

A lion is not a lion is not a lion. As individuals, as mates, as members of a society, they're all very different.
~ Frans Lanting
Ours is an open and accepting society, and has historically provided an avenue for lawful immigration to all those willing to accept the responsibilities of citizenship.
~ Spencer Bachus
We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society.
~ Rudy Giuliani
Mostly I'm interviewed by white people, and identified with white society.
~ Nadine Gordimer
Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.
~ Kenneth L. Pike
I am still attracted to stories about people who are considered to be on the outside of society. I still seek inspiration from those stories.
~ Mira Nair
We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.
~ Alan Lightman
Avoid internalizing society's sexism, racism, ageism - pick an ism, any ism.
~ Paul Krassner
[We should] stop the immigration to our societies - because we have had more than enough Islam in our societies.
~ Geert Wilders
Sports are a microcosm of society.
~ Billie Jean King
But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich our lives.
~ Joan D. Vinge
American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.
~ Bryant H. McGill
Jazz is one of the few things you can do in society and express yourself freely and creatively.
~ Mulgrew Miller
Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed.
~ Rebecca West
Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.
~ George Bernard Shaw
But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.
~ Audre Lorde
Any suggestion that the most open and diverse society on the planet is likely to in any way resemble Russia requires a suspension of common sense that is pretty hard to deal with.
~ Newt Gingrich
The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
~ Madeleine Albright
Freedom necessarily means that many things will be done which we do not like.
~ Friedrich A. Hayek
Discrimination and prejudice of any kind have no place in sports or in our society.
~ Jerry Reinsdorf
In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.
~ Randa Abdel-Fattah
Europe sees itself as a liberal-minded society. It has no desire to be, nor can it be, a "Christian club.
~ Walter Kasper
Every new refugee to a society, whether it's the United States or some other place, is subjected to fear. They are the new outsider population, the new other.
~ Nguyen Viet Thang
Afghan society is very complex, and Afghanistan has a very complex culture. Part of the reason it has remained unknown is because of this complexity.
~ Mohsen Makhmalbaf