Quotes About Integration

Ethics and Science need to shake hands.

Education has long been viewed in American society as "the great equalizer." But in practice, American schools are highly segregated by race and socioeconomic status, which defeats the equality goal. Research dating back five decades shows one of the most powerful ways to improve the life chances of disadvantaged students is giving them the opportunity to attend high-quality schools that educate rich and poor students under a single roof.135

British and American children are often put in a separate room, right away or after a few weeks or months.

we generally find that the closer we stick to the rules of our society, the more accepted we become.

Segregation has no place in the education system.

Unlike workers, drones are universally accepted into all colonies at almost any time.

What nature hath joined together, multiple regression analysis cannot put asunder.

Legal segregation was long gone, but a strong tradition prevailed in both communities that it was best to live separately.

computers are now often an essential component of a good design.

What would our lives be like if our days and nights were as immersed in nature as they are in technology?

The life of human beings is suspended between the poles of heaven and earth. Let us retain within us the width of heaven, but let us not forget the earth that bears us. Earth and heaven are the symbols of the finite and the infinite, in which we share equally. It is not our task to choose between these two poles of our existence or to give up the one for the sake of the other, but to recognize their mutual interdependence and to integrate them into our very being.

This is not our world with trees in it. It's a world of trees, where humans have just arrived.

When the lateral roots of two Douglas-firs run into each other underground, they fuse. Through those self-grafted knots, the two trees join their vascular systems together and become one. Networked together underground by countless thousands of miles of living fungal threads, her trees feed and heal each other, keep their young and sick alive, pool their resources and metabolites into community chests. . . . It

The best way to do the job, Polanyi argued, was to allow each worker to keep track of what every other worker was doing.

Emancipations as they progressed within less revolutionary states included Holland-Belgium, 1795; Sweden, 1848; Denmark and Greece, 1849; England by a gradual unmuddling completely in 1866; Austria, 1867; Spain by the withdrawal of its 1492 order of expulsion in 1868; the new German Empire, 1871. Though they were influential out of all proportion to their numbers, the emancipated Jews of Western Europe, many of whom moved directly to assimilate, were only a minute fraction of the Diaspora.

I believe contemplation shows us that nothing inside us is as bad as our hatred and denial of the bad. Hating and denying it only complicates our problems. All of life is grist for the mill. Paula D'Arcy puts it, "God comes to us disguised as our life." Everything belongs; God uses everything. There are no dead-ends. There is no wasted energy. Everything

Once you see that your skin and your gift are two sides of the same coin, you can never forget it. It preserves religion from any arrogance and denial.

By the age of seven, almost all of us have separated our body and our soul from our mind, and we give all of our credence to our mind, disconnected from our bodies, disconnected from our souls, which abide and grow more in silence. Descartes

Higher stages always empathetically include the lower, or they are not higher stages!

God is not in competition with reality, but in full cooperation with it.

We need to hold together all of the stages of life, and for some strange, wonderful reason, it all becomes quite "simple" as we approach our later years.

One day the religion of Christ will take another step forward on earth. It will embrace the whole man [sic], all of him, not just half as it does now in embracing only the soul. —Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco

Practice is standing in the flow, whereas theory and analysis observe the flow from a position of separation.

Everything finally belongs, and you are a part of it. This knowing and this enjoying are a good description of salvation.