Diversity Quotes

Mostly I enjoy the restaurants (my husband is a chef), though I wish we had a wider diversity of ethnic food.

President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.

Hollywood will put you in a box, so to speak. Some people will have seen you in 'La Bamba' or another dramatic film and think, 'Okay, that's what Lou does.' But they don't really have an idea of the range or diversity that I can bring to a project.

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.

They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose.

Allow the diversity to exist. There is nothing wrong with it. Hell, we put up with the religious right-we can put up with transgendered human beings.

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.

But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral.

Not all moral issues have the same moral weight as abortion and euthanasia. There may be legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not... with regard to abortion and euthanasia.

I like to eat and I love the diversity of foods.

I've always been very left of center and the radio never had much diversity and film did.

I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds.

In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.

The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.

Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.

Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.

To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate diversity - and its lost creativity.

I think that this misses out on some of the interesting narrative realities, which is that it actually doesn't work very well, that eliminating diversity is actually a really good way to make a species and its individuals less robust.

Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.

The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.

Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased.

The current diversity visa program does a disservice to our immigration policy and to those immigrants who have moved through the more traditional process that allows them to lawfully reside in this country.

'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.

For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect.

The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular traditions.

We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this nation.

One of the things that's beautiful about New Orleans is how culturally rich we are and how well we have worked together. People call us a gumbo. It's really important that we get focused on the very simple notion that diversity is a strength, it's not a weakness.