Quotes about Diversity

One of the most pusillanimous things we of the female sex have done throughout the centuries is to have allowed the male sex to assume that mankind is masculine. It is not. It takes both male and female to make the image of God. The proper understanding of mankind is that it is only a poor, broken thing if either male or female is excluded.

Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts...

God go with you." "I don't believe in God." "That's all right. I do." "I'm glad.

how there's very little difference in the size of the tiniest microbe and the greatest galaxy.

They're a good family...One can tell a great deal around a dinner table...I think the closest we ever come in this naughty world to realizing unity in diversity is around a family table. I felt it at their table, the wholeness of the family unit, freely able to expand to include friends, to include me even through Austin's and my suspicions of each other, and yet each person in that unit complete, individual, unique, valued.

I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a family there's no question of integration or intermarriage. It's just one human being marrying another human being or one human being living around and with another human being.

Make the world a better place by resolving to do something good for someone different every day.

Follow few. Lead many. Walk with some. Embrace all.

We are all special cases.

They taught us always to respect other peoples: every man is made in the image of God, even if he has a tendency to forget it.

Curiosity and imagination are bound together. The age-old human urge to peek behind other people's drawn shutters, the eagerness to compare one's own intimate secrets with the secret intimacy of others, is an urge that may serve as an antidote to the fanatic's lust to murder the difference between himself and others. Or to kill anyone who refuses to change and declines to be exactly like him.

As Catholics, we are free to cultivate a rich life of piety, drawing from the treasures of many lands and many ages.