Quotes About Difference

Exclusion is common behavior. But that doesn't make it unchangeable. And that doesn't mean that anything is wrong with the cafeteria fringe.

What difference is there between the figure of the conqueror and that of the pirate? said the ancients. The difference only between the eagle and the vulture,—serenity or restlessness.

God grant us the serenity to exercise our bounded rationality freely in the systems that are structured appropriately, the courage to restructure the systems that aren't, and the wisdom to know the difference!

We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It's not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers.

Some things may never change but other things can be so completely different that they make the things that don't change bearable.

An empathetic Indigo can feel this heaviness as if the tragedy were personal. This is where confusion can occur for the Indigo who can't tell the difference between their own feelings and those of someone else. It can feel the same, because heavy feelings are heavy feelings regardless of their origin. It

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito"—Dalai Lama.)

In short, our Marianne is just not in the common style. We shall simply have to present her as an original." She sobered abruptly. "How very stupid Perry was, to be sure. This girl might have changed his life." To this uncharacteristically severe judgment on the part of his normally charitable parent, the marquess returned no answer.

Attributing blacks' poor health to inherent racial difference allowed whites like Jefferson both to ignore how disease is caused by political inequality and to justify an unequal system by pointing to the inherent racial difference that disease supposedly reveals.

There is magic in motion. There is energy in change. There is something in all of us to make a difference in anyway, everyday.

Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.

If somebody has the competency to do something, and the desire to do something, then nothing about their race, sex or sexual orientation should hold them back. But minimizing difference is not the same as pretending difference does not exist. To assume that sex, sexuality and skin colour mean nothing would be ridiculous. But to assume that they mean everything will be fatal.

Secondly, I believe the pieces of the puzzle fit together to describe a people who tend to be more individualistic, with a do-it-myself mentality. Cascadians are, for example, less trusting of religious organizations, and place higher value on their own personal religious or spiritual beliefs. Cascadians think that they can make a difference in politics — outside of voting.

One of the temptations Christian men face is the temptation of thinking that all the obligations attending fatherhood are wrapped up in the simple task of "breadwinning". But there is a trap. Providing the money a household needs instead of providing yourself is a problem. The biblical approach is that of giving provision as a representation of yourself, and the difference between the two approaches is profound.

We have grown accustomed to thinking of our democracy as a good thing, and it surprises us to learn that the founding fathers of our nation were deeply suspicious of democracy and tried to place whatever restraints on it they could. They established a constitutional republic, not a democracy, and it is a sign of our current ignorance that we do not even know the difference between the two. This

Ninety percent of the children's books patronize the child and say there's a difference between you and me, so you listen to this story. I, for some reason or another, don't do that. I treat the child as an equal.

That day, they decided that Sneetches are Sneetches, and no kind of Sneetch is the BEST on the beaches." The Sneetches by Dr. Seuss

Death has no power to change moral qualities," he insisted in a Decoration Day speech in 1883. "Whatever else I may forget," the aging abolitionist declared, "I shall never forget the difference between those who fought for liberty and those who fought for slavery.

If all are equal, then none is strong.

The difference between listening to a radio sermon and going to church...is almost like the difference between calling your girl on the phone and spending an evening with her.

It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.

The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.

The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to conceal the intensity of his obsession from all except those similarly afflicted.

If you must make a difference in life, then change your mind set.