Diversity Quotes - Page 39

• America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live.

  David Alan Grier

  America, World, Want

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• We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.

  Aga Khan IV

  Democracy, World, Safe

  Address by His Highness the Aga Khan to the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, May 15, 2006.

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• Canada has for many years been a beacon to the rest of the world for its commitment to pluralism and for its support for the multicultural richness and diversity of its peoples.

  Aga Khan IV

  Commitment, Years, Pluralism Is

  Press Release: Aga Khan Welcomes Government of Canada's Partnership in New Global Centre for Pluralism, Ottawa, Canada, April 18, 2005.

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• The diversity of web browsers tomorrow will match the diversity of ink browsers (aka paper) today

  Bill Buxton

  Aka, Ink, Paper

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• All these seven colors are part of one rainbow, yet they are all different. They have their own quality, their own identity, their own flavor to it. So it is a rainbow. The Divine loves diversity, that is why he made us all different.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Color, Rainbow, Quality

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• For the multiculturist/diversity crowd, culture, ideas, customs, arts and skills are a matter of racial membership where one has no more control over his culture than his race. That's a racist idea, but it's politically correct racism. It says that one's convictions, character and values are not determined by personal judgment and choices but genetically determined. In other words, as yesteryear's racists held: race determines identity.

  Walter E. Williams

  Art, Character, Race

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• As America is transformed from a 90 percent European American nation, as it was in the 1960s, to one where we will soon be a minority, should we not ask some pertinent questions. Is this racial diversity enriching, or will it be damaging to our social fabric?

  David Duke

  Pertinent Questions, Ku Klux Klan, America

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• Are you a producer or a looter? If diversity were always and everywhere good we would be clamoring for more midgets in the NBA.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Nba, Would Be, Politics

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• Let's never forget what made us great as a nation. It's not diversity, it's liberty.

  Joseph Farah

  Liberty, Politics, Never Forget

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• Like many white liberals, Ken sees the whiteness of his social life as more an accident of circumstance than a choice. He would welcome greater diversity in the neighbourhood. However, he does not consciously do enough work either in his social life or in the larger community to make that diversity possible.

  Bell Hooks

  White, Choices, Community

  bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope”, p.55, Routledge

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• There's a pure and simple business case for diversity: Companies that are more diverse are more successful.

  Mindy Grossman

  Successful, Simple, Cases

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• Them which is of other naturs thinks different.

  Charles Dickens

  Thinking, Different, Think Different

  'Martin Chuzzlewit' (1844) ch. 19 (Mrs Gamp)

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• Without the gift of flowers and the infinite diversity of their fruits, man and bird, if they had continued to exist at all, would be today unrecognizable.

  Loren Eiseley

  Flower, Men, Bird

  Loren Eiseley (2011). “The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature”, p.77, Vintage

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• For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual suspects during Black History Month or enjoying south-of-the-border cuisine on Cinco de Mayo. It means talking to and spending time with kids not like them so that they may discover those kids are in fact just like them.

  John Ridley

  Children, Real, Mean

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Excluded by my birth and tastes from the social order, I was not aware of its diversity. Nothing in the world was irrelevant: the stars on a general's sleeve, the stock-market quotations, the olive harvest, the style of the judiciary, the wheat exchange, flower-beds. Nothing. This order, fearful and feared, whose details were all inter-related, had a meaning: my exile.

  Jean Genet

  Stars, Flower, Order

  Jean Genet (1973). “The Thief's Journal”

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• Expulsion and genocide, though both are international offenses, must remain distinct; the former is an offense against fellow-nations, whereas the latter is an attack upon human diversity as such, that is, upon a characteristic of the "human status" without which the very words "mankind" or "humanity" would be devoid of meaning.

  Hannah Arendt

  Humanity, Would Be, Crime

  Hannah Arendt (2006). “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil”, p.235, Penguin

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• This (America) is a land of rich diversity, from the towering skyscrapers of Manhatan all the way to the towering mounds of garbage piled up next to the towering skyscrapers of Manhattan.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Land

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• For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization.

  Terry Eagleton

  Civilization, Achievement, Belief

  "The liberal supremacists" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2009.

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• It is easy to see why a diversity of cultures should confront power with a problem. If culture is about plurality, power is about unity. How can it sell itself simultaneously to a whole range of life forms without being fatally diluted?

  Terry Eagleton

  Unity, Culture, Problem

  "Those in power are right to see multiculturalism as a threat" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2007.

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• The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.

  Giordano Bruno

  Order, Opposites, Perfection

  Giordano Bruno (1962). “Cause, Principle, and Unity: Five Dialogues”

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• What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces.

  David Puttnam

  Natural, Force, Certain

  "News Corporation has sought to undermine elected governments" by David Puttnam, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2012.

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• The overwhelming triumph of the international multimedia conglomerate has resulted in less diversity within the field and has made it much harder for newer writers not only to break in, but to make any kind of a living while doing so.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Triumph, Fields, Kind

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• I think diversity can also be a resource, an asset, especially in a world that is becoming globalized, to deal with difference, to deal with variety, to deal with complexity.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Thinking, Differences, World

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• Really, as long as I am working and have diversity, I am happy.

  Adam Brody

  Long

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• Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism.

  Gary Bauer

  Children, Growing Up, Believe

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