#diversity

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort, where we overlap. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#diversity #comfort

Zijn goede bedoelingen werden gedwarsboomd door de onwankelbare starheid van Rebeca, die vele jaren van leed en ellende nodig had gehad om de voorrechten van de eenzaamheid te verkrijgen en die niet van plan was daarvan af te zien in ruil voor een oude dag welke verstoord zou worden door de valse aantrekkelijkheid van een anders medelijden. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#inspirational #inspirational

The difference between you and him and him and me isn’t different at all: we’re all different. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#diversity #diversity

I have a self-made quote: Celebrate diversity, practice acceptance and may we all choose peaceful options to conflict. ↗

— Donzella Michele Malone

#celebrate #conflict #diversity #inspirational #peace

Furniture or gold can be taken away from you, but knowledge and a new language can easily be taken from one place to the other, and nobody can take them away from you. ↗

— David Schwarzer

#diversity #language #pride #diversity

Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others... ↗

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

#empathy #empathy-diversity #empathy-psychology #prejudice #racism

Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#diversity #each #ethnic #fabric #large

If contemporary Christians took seriously the possibility that those outside the boundaries of the church might hold the promise of renewal, if we ceased regarding ourselves as the source of salvation and the secular world as a potential threat, and if we emulated Jesus' example in accepting the faith and the courage of those who live beyond conventional standards of purity, well, I can hardly imagine how things would look. ↗

— Greg Carey

#holiness #purity #religion #salvation #courage

We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity. ↗

— Lamar Alexander

#backgrounds #country #different #different backgrounds #diversity

The terrible tyranny of the majority. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#diversity #minorities #democracy