Quotes About Diversity

I like that the Mall serves as our national Tuppaware, reliable and empty, waiting to be filled with potluck whatever.

As a Frenchman who represented neither North nor South, East nor West, left nor right, Yankees nor Red Sox, Lafayette has always belonged to all of us.

Then, as if getting blown up is not enough to worry about, after I take a seat on the steps, I get a look at the choir. Thirty singers and from where I'm sitting, it looks like only two of them are black. It's not like I'm saying suburban white people shouldn't sing. Because I love Van Halen's "Hot for Teacher.

The people who visit the [Lincoln] memorial always look like an advertisement for democracy, so bizarrely, suspiciously diverse that one time I actually saw a man in a cowboy hat standing there reading the Gettysburg Address next to a Hasidic Jew

We the people have never agreed on much of anything. ... [D]isunity is the through-line in the national plot. Not necessarily as a failing, but as a free people's privileged.

Washington wrote. "For, happily, the Government of the United States . . . gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.

more Irish than French).

The First Amendment, he explained, exposed tolerance as a sham, because tolerance implies one superior group of people deigning to put up with their inferiors.

It says something about the ugliness of September 11, 1777, that this boy woke up a Lutheran and went to bed a Quaker.

United States . . . gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.

Maybe Dillon Samreen will decide to pick on this new kid with the weird name and the funny accent instead of me.

It seems, after all that there are no nonpeculiar people.

Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus? The Proust of the Papuans? I'd be happy to read them.

What this means is not a single Tower of Babel plotted in common, but hundreds of thousands of separate beginnings, the length and breadth of America. Energetic people who build against pains and uncertainties, as weaker ones merely hope against them.

La gente non fa le cose per cui ha un vero talento, ma quelle a cui la spinge la preoccupazione. Se sono bravi a riparare le automobili, devono cantare il Don Giovanni; se sanno cantare, devono fare l'architetto; e se hanno il bernoccolo dell'architettura, vogliono diventare ispettori scolastici o pittori astrattisti o qualunque altra cosa. QUALUNQUE COSA!

The human being, more and more oppressed by the peculiar terms of his existence - one time around for each, no more than a single life per customer - has to think of the boredom of death. O those eternities of nonexistence! For people who crave continual interest and diversity, O! how boring death will be! To live in the grave, in one place, how frightful!

Americans find it hard to believe that foreigners are unalterably foreign, for they have seen generations of immigrants who became Americans. But old cultures are impermeable and exclusive—none more so than the French.

Arab boys singing their lessons.

Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus? The Proust of the Papuans?

Nor did she believe in identity, certainly not the local nationalistic version of it. She said that man was only smart if he was able to shed his identity. Skin color is a little hard to shed, she said, it's true. But the DNA of your social class is even harder to get rid of.

Ask a deeply religious Christian if he'd rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don't seem so bad lately.

Have you ever noticed that things that don't kill you make you weaker? And great minds don't think alike. If they did, the patent office would only have about fifty inventions. I started getting suspicious when I cried over spilt milk and the cashier took it off my bill." - Wally

The great thing about reading diverse news from the fields of business, health, science, technology, politics, and more is that you automatically see patterns in the world and develop mental hooks upon which you can hang future knowledge.

Es gibt zwei Arten von Menschen: intelligente und attraktive Leute wie Sie [...] und die sechs Milliarden Idioten, die uns im Weg herumstehen.