Quotes about Diversity

Thankfully, dreams can change. If we'd all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses.

Thanksgiving reminds us that no matter our differences, we're still one people, part of something bigger than ourselves.

Transgender discrimination is the civil rights issue of our time

You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.

That's all right with me, I like changes.

Everyone is born equal; we all come into the world helpless and innocent. We all breathe the same air, and many of us believe in the same God. And yet … and yet, to many people this one small difference is a huge one! It's huge because many people have never realized what the difference is, for if they had they would have discovered long ago that there's actually no difference at all!

Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus.

We said that we believed that the truth would set us free, and the truth was that the Sunday-school staff was burned out, that there were almost no people of color, and that if we didn't get more help, we'd have to close down.

Being surrounded by educated people makes democracy stronger, and it benefits our entire economy.

Just about everything you learned in school about life is wrong, but the wrongest thing might very well be this: Being well rounded is the secret to success.

Based on who they are and what they want and what they know, everyone is right. Every time.

It should be called "a culture" or "this culture," because there is no universal culture, no "us" that defines all of us.