Quotes About Diversity

I once watched in awe as a New York City tenant lawyer exclaimed, "Good!" when she was shown statistics about declining white male incomes.

autoritarismo es algo que atrae simplemente a las personas que no toleran la complejidad: no hay nada intrínseco «de izquierdas» o «de derechas» en ese instinto. Es meramente antipluralista; recela de las personas con ideas distintas, y es alérgico a los debates acalorados. Resulta irrelevante que quienes lo tienen deriven en última instancia su postura política del marxismo o del nacionalismo. Es una actitud mental, no un conjunto de ideas.

disappeared beneath Soviet avenues of cracked concrete; how variety – medieval stone foundations, baroque seminarium doors, classical columns, Prussian red brick walls, and delicate shop windows – had vanished behind spectacular monotony; how churches and pastry shops, farmers' markets, tobacconists, a university and schools and law courts gave way to numbered apartment blocks.

When Mel told his Jewish mother he was marrying an Italian girl, she said: "Bring her over. I'll be in the kitchen with my head in the oven".

How do we judge a dark landscape? Is it dark because the ones who already live there won't let humans have their piece of the world? Do we judge who is good and who is bad by the color and shape of their skin - or by what resonates in their hearts?

Sometimes I ask lots of people the same question." His head hurt. "What do you do if you don't get the same answer?" "Think about it.

Do we judge who is good and who is bad by the color and shape of their skin - or by what resonates in their hearts?

We are here. We are different but we stand united to protect our home. We are different but we protect our families, whether they are families by blood or by heart.

A leader needs to look beyond his own kind, needs the obedience of everyone

We are what we are. Nothing more, nothing less. There is good and evil among every kind of people. It's the evil among us who rule now.

A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well, is the chief instrument of cultural change. (Richard Rorty, philosopher)

Let Greeks be Greeks, and Women what they are.

Over hundreds of thousands of years, extraverts and introverts have not differed in their average reproductive output (although they might have differed at any one time or place in our evolutionary history). We can conclude that, while there are personality differences, there is no one "personality" that is inherently more adaptively successful than any other.

Kinds of water drown us. Kinds of water do not.

Poetry in general doesn't do anything, there are just individual poems. Some of them I don't get, some of them seem banal, some of them change my life. So there you go. It's bound to be a spectrum, it's the same with bagels.

If you can't see that your own culture has its own set of interests, emotions, and biases, how can you expect to deal successfully with someone else's culture?

The Hmong have a phrase, hais cuaj txub kaum txub, which means "to speak of all kinds of things." It is often used at the beginning of an oral narrative as a way of reminding the listeners that the world is full of things that may not seem to be connected but actually are; that no event occurs in isolation; that you can miss a lot by sticking to the point; and that the storyteller is likely to be rather long-winded.

You can miss a lot by sticking to the point.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

was killed because he was an ethnic Tatar. Interethnic abuse is common in the military

their kids in hockey, soccer, and judo. Girls are now passionate about ballroom dancing and tango,

For Spiegel himself, all these developments meant something different: that he was suddenly forced to keep company with alternative practitioners whose approaches he had spent years reviling.

Are we changing the idea of what beauty is? Let's hope so. I'm not the typical Hollywood beauty. Let's hope we're looking at the insides of people a little more.

His interviews revealed that the majority of Sak's employees, half of Macy's, but only one-fifth of Klein's sounded the 'r' clearly, bearing out his theory that a more emphasized 'r' was now the more prestigious pronunciation, and that social class is inscribed in the pronunciation of even a single sound.