Quotes About Diversity

Who knows why people are different? We are born with a certain nature, I think. And then the world takes its swings at us.

I loved New York for this gift of endless encounters.

Everyone thinks like themselves, this is my point.

And that woman is not politics. She's a person, and she has every right to be here.

Who's going to take care of all those old white people? Where are new businesses going to come from?" Bob

reminder how some people could do things others could not.

But it was very strange to think that the children I had were already—in just one generation—so different, so very different, from me and what I had come from. And from what Catherine had come from as well. I don't know why this came to me with such force at that moment, but it did.

Who knows why people are different? We are born with a certain nature, I think. And then the world takes its swings at us. ii

great landscape painters understood one thing: that everything in nature started from the same color.

with the group of Somali men who gathered

If the nation's economists were laid end to end, they would point in all directions.

For Aristotle, diversity is the keynote of the free society, and free exchange lies at its heart. In the true (as opposed to the ideal) political community there must be a diversity of social roles

Man's reason was set free, but he used that freedom to try to dominate everything that now seemed separate from himself and human reason, the so-called Other. Science, law, government, even language itself—all became instruments by which Western man reduced diversity to sameness, spontaneity to uniformity, and difference (defined as the Other) to multiform objects for control, like butterflies in a killing-jar.

The one great lesson Origen learned from his Neoplatonist teachers was that every human being was made in the image of God, in the same way Plato described all material objects as made in the image of the Forms.31 Of course, the most perfect of God's images was Jesus Christ himself, His only begotten son. However, everyone of every race, sex, age, or creed, from the lowest slave to the emperor himself, carried that same reflection of perfection.

The problem with modern society, Sartre warned, was that it wants everyone to be the same, that is, to be bourgeois. "In fact," Sartre concluded, "one becomes bourgeois by choosing, once and for all, the analytical vision of the world, which tries to impose itself upon every man," capitalist or Communist, eastern or western, black or white.34 Instead, man in the postmodern age must look for a true individualism, the product of what Sartre calls his total situation

All the great peoples of democracy . . . have taken that place in the battle that was destined for them. They work for the triumph not of one alone, but of all."10

Renaissance Platonism realized that it was this quest for spiritual perfection that bound together all the great religions and civilizations: Egypt, the Chaldeans and Babylonians, the Persians and Hebrews, the Greeks and Romans. All were suddenly revealed to be part of the same spiritual Big Push. All were revealed to be different aspects of the One.

Some states banned the teaching of German in private and public schools alike.

We were tolerated. and that is unforgivable. If you cannot accept a man wholeheartedly, then you should have the fortitude to repudiate him. Kwame in "The two hearts of Kwasi Boachi

Het is verstandig bang te zijn voor elke groep waartoe je niet behoort.

Zou je geen medelijden krijgen met alles wat normaal is?' verzucht Rosa. Zij wendt haar gezicht af en drukt zich tegen Lemmy aan. 'Je zo bedreigd te moeten voelen door alles wat een beetje afwijkt!

It is ironic that those who seek to blend and destroy individual racial identities are the biggest enemies of diversity, while simultaneously claiming to support diversity. The end result of that form of diversity is the exact opposite of their stated goal: the destruction of individual identities and ultimately, the destruction of diversity.

Above all he [John F. Kennedy] gave the world for an imperishable moment the vision of a leader who greatly understood the terror and the hope, the diversity and the possibility, of life on this planet and who made people look beyond nation and race to the future of humanity.

Every nation ridicules other nations -- and all are right.