Diversity Quotations | Page 5

Hispanic gives us all one ultimate paternal cultural progenitor: Spain. The diverse cultures already on the American shores when the Europeans arrived, as well as those introduced because of the African slave trade, are completely obliterated by the term. Hispanic is nothing more than a concession made by the U. S. legislature when they saw they couldn't get rid of us. If we won't go away, why not at least Europeanize us, make us presentable guests at the dinner table, take away our feathers and rattles and civilize us once and for all.

Pluralist societies are not accidents of history. They are a product of enlightened education and continuous investment by governments and all of civil society in recognizing and celebrating the diversity of the world's peoples.

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

United we stand, divided we fall.

What intrigues me about it is if you really want to create a dominant urban network that really stresses diversity, you combine a cable station like BET with a network television station focusing on urban markets like UPN, ... It would be a very attractive venture.

What we've done and will do, I'm sure, in part, is reach out for some experienced hands, but we also are going to want new talent, we're going to want to emphasize diversity and we're going to want a broad Cabinet.

The laws of biology are written in the language of diversity.

The cutting of primeval forest and other disasters, fueled by the demands of growing human populations, are the overriding threat to biological diversity everywhere.

Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.

I will argue that every scrap of biological diversity is priceless, to be learned and cherished, and never to be surrendered without a struggle.

Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane around earth so thin that it cannot be seen edgewise from a satellite yet so prodigiously diverse that only a tiny fraction of species have been discovered and named.

We should not knowingly allow any species or race to go extinct. And let us go beyond mere salvage to begin the restoration of natural environments, in order to enlarge wild populations and stanch the hemorrhaging of biological wealth. There can be no purpose more enspiriting than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still surrounds us.

There can be no purpose more enspiriting than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still surrounds us.

There is a place in America for diversity of views and opinions. I may cook my gumbo differently from you, but that does not make mine better. I may just use different ingredients. Politics has gotten so spicy, and we need to cool it down some. We may find that your recipe for gumbo is just as good.

Since the Earth is finite, and we will have to stop expanding sometime, should we do it before or after nature's diversity is gone?

I suppose to a certain degree. London's my favorite place on the planet and the reason for that is its fantastic diversity.

Lexical variety, eccentric constructions and punctuation, variant spellings, archaisms, the ability to pile clause on clause, the effortless incorporation of words from other languages: flexibility, and inclusiveness, is what makes English great; and diversity is what keeps it healthy and growing, exuberantly regenerating itself with rich new forms and usages.

Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive anything short of total global catastrophe. Within that hundred million will be thousands that could survive a global temperature drop of twenty degrees—which would be a lot more devastating than it sounds. Within that hundred million will be thousands that could survive a global temperature rise of twenty degrees. But a community of a hundred species or a thousand species has almost no survival value at all.

I've had to overcome a lot of diversity.

this is the weakness of most 'edifying' or 'propaganda' literature. There is no diversity...You cannot, in fact, give God His due without giving the devil his due also.

The best hope for peace in the world lies in the simple but far-reaching recognition that we all have many different associations and affiliations, and we need not see ourselves as being rigidly divided by a single categorization of hardened groups, which confront each other.

The Statue of Liberty is meant to be shorthand for a country so unlike its parts that a trip from California to Indiana should require a passport.

[The media] are using a national treasure--that's what the public airwaves are. And they have a responsibility to bring out the full diversity of opinion or lose their licenses.

Rap music and rap records used to always be like this: we get one or two shots to a piece cause it was a singles marketplace and when the major record companies saw that it could also handle the sales of the albums then they started to force everybody to expand their topics from 1 to about 10 and you gotta deliver 12 songs, so a lot of times if you took a person who wasn't really developed, and the diversity of trying say 12 different things, you know the companies were like "Cool! Say the same thing 12 different ways."

I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.

Motivated employees are crucial to a company's success.

My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way: an outcast in high school, a stranger in a foreign country, the best at something, the worst at something, the one who's different. Being an outsider is the one thing we all have in common.

It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from a greater diversity of artists.

As collective consciousness goes higher and higher, all the differences in the world will be appreciated more and more. A definition of peace is unity in the midst of diversity. Or you could say happiness, love, and peace in the midst of all diversity. All the differences would be appreciated fully in the light of this peace.

Some members, like Britain and France, are ready, willing and able to take action in Libya or Mali. Others are uncomfortable with the use of military force. Let's welcome that diversity, instead of trying to snuff it out.

Michael J. Copps, acting FCC chairman, has denounced the lack of racial and gender diversity in the broadcast industry as 'a shameful state of affairs.' Unsurprisingly, his proposed corrective is to force the transfer of station ownership to greater numbers of minorities, who are statistically more likely to carry liberal talk shows.

You know, there are not only - all of the networks, and I mean every television news operation and print and radio and magazines, newspapers, all of them, are remiss in the diversity area. I mean, none of these organizations have reached a level of parity

Once evolution gets a good basic design, it tends to throw away the variants and concentrate on the near-infinite diversity within that design.

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

I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity

I know nowadays the common wisdom is to celebrate diversity as long as you don't point out that people are different.

We consider this a cosmopolitan store. We have Indian food, of course, but also Asian, Spanish and Mediterranean. Our store lets us bring in a little bit of cultural diversity here, and people are liking it.

We will do a program for a problem area. We are doing one on religious diversity soon.

We would like to see more diversity in all of our ranks. That's the cornerstone of our league. The administration and coaching staff should reflect the audience that we have for the game in the United States.

Nature has gifted this rich biological diversity to us. We will not allow it to become the monopoly of a handful of corporations. We will keep it as the basis of our wealth and our sustenance.

We have managed to make the celebration of diversity our mode of resistance.

One of the movements we have developed is to say that, just as intellectual property rights protect the inventions of individuals, common rights are needed to protect the common intellectual heritage of indigenous peoples. These are rights that are recognized through the Convention on Biological Diversity. We are working to make sure that they become foundations of our jurisprudence.

Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.

The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralising and monopolising power and control. Not until diversity is made the logic of production will there be a chance for sustainability, justice and peace. Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.

Seen from a monocultural perspective, manipulating objects is very, very clever. But seen from a multidimensional perspective, from a perspective of diversity, this is extremely crude because what we have lost out on is a cow that serves as a source of sustainable energy.

Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.

Whenever I talk with community groups about how to blend the community with the diverse population we have here, the language barrier is always the No. 1 obstacle. It seems to be holding the community back; we want them to be able to embrace the diversity that's here.

We're trying to add a little diversity to our campuses and gain a few brains.

We were told by the police that we were not welcome at the diversity rally.

This year's nominations are a true reflection of the diversity that currently exists in Latin music - not only across genres but across generations as well.

We believe it's an incredibly important step toward creating an education system in South Carolina that recognizes the diversity in children and the diversity in learning styles that exist.

Yet they still remain afraid of their own citizens and the healthy diversity of news and views which defines a modern society .

This set of photos shows the diversity of things we've been seeing on Mars during the last several months,

When you get down to a few dozen members of a species you're really talking about very serious problems, ... So this is a tool. From now on that there's no need ever really to ever lose that genetic diversity that's remaining in these wild populations.

We've got the same kind of diversity as in the previous years. We have some of the same genres this time, since Irish music and Cajun music have been such big hits.

With consolidation you have fewer and fewer voices, ... I always thought that the strength of radio was its diversity. It has always had so many voices. When I was a kid, the maximum amount of radio stations that you were allowed to have in your ownership group was five. Now you have one company that owns 1,250 stations. That's just wrong.

The president of these United States engaged in ceremony in the rotunda, but he stopped short of sacrament when he missed an opportunity to name somebody to the courts with the spirit of Rosa Parks, with diversity and minority rights,

But I would hope however, that the diversity and differences that we have amongst and between us, we should see as a strength and as something we should celebrate rather than fear.

The Government of Canada recognizes the need for readers in all regions of the country to have affordable access to a diversity of Canadian reading material,

While the increase in roles for performers over 40 and in roles for Asian/Pacific Islanders is encouraging, overall casting trends continue to disappoint. We will continue working to ensure that those doing the hiring have more exposure to the vast diversity of talent that exists among the guild's membership.

You can never know what's in people's hearts, but it's not fair that we're going backwards in time. We should be, as educators, embracing diversity and provide a model of what the world is like for the students so they can learn together and play together. That's important.

We wanted to create an environment where we wanted to raise our children in, an environment of diversity and inclusion.

We've had a very nice experience with diversity overall here in Munster. This has been a very professional community over the years with doctors, lawyers and professional people from all over the world, and their children have become part of our school districts in Northwest Indiana.

We're stunned by the diversity of rocks. This stuff looks like it was put into a blender.

Life shows no trend to complexity in the usual sense-only an asymmetrical expansion of diversity around a starting point constrained to be simple.

We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous extinction.

Those towns show vitality and maintain a diversity of businesses. There were more examples of these type of communities in Indiana than any other state.

This was a year that if you relaxed, you were going to get beat. Here's Marquette picked 12th, and they have a bye. It gives you a sense of just how strong this league is. It's almost impossible to imagine that a couple of years ago. The diversity and depth of players make it almost impossible to predict.

This view is the single most powerful predicator of people's attitudes toward gay rights in general and shows a growing comfort with human diversity in general,

What's extraordinary about all of these artists is the talent and diversity they bring as performers and musical stylists, ... This is destined to be an incredible night of entertainment.

We cannot allow safe havens in Europe, because now it is possible to escape due to the huge diversity in our laws.

We want to do something to promote diversity on campus.

Though most university-level entrepreneurship programs have some basic features in common, there is so much variation it's hard to identify a typical curriculum, let alone an exemplary one. While diversity is good, this field needs more of the consistency in core concepts found in other academic fields.

Within days of our public launch, the Ethernet Alliance received numerous requests from companies who wanted to join. These members truly represent the diversity of Ethernet supporters from the carrier to the consumer. We are especially pleased to have SYSTIMAX Solutions as a member of the Ethernet Alliance and look forward to adding their unique expertise in this area to our organization.

With improved analytical methods, we show that the abundance distribution and total diversity of soil-borne bacteria can be deciphered.

We tend to be less strident than the big studios on issues of cultural diversity because we tend to promote it ... but there is substantial concern over how this will impact the industry.

We do not intend to limit content diversity on any of our systems. If we limit content, if we do not promote a diversity of voices ... then consumers will waste no time migrating to other Internet and media services.

We feel like we are making a little bit of history in the bay area with Cheryl. And it's particularly gratifying that it coincides with the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday week and Dunedin's diversity week celebration.

Extremists, who thrive on conflict; who do not tolerate diversity; who seek power through division and destruction. The global system they hope to create is one of new walls and new isolation, and radically smaller horizons. It is an anti-democratic, anti-economic-growth, and anti-progress agenda.

This new regulatory regime for cable could potentially have devastating impacts for our proverbial 500-channel universe of diverse cable offerings. It very well could be the case that government regulation here could destroy that diversity and drive out some of the smaller niche channels out there, which would find a difficult time surviving on their own in a la carte world.

This new company is built on Panasonic's global strategy of providing solutions for a secure and comfortable life. We want to draw closer to our ultimate customer -- the homeowner -- to get to know their needs and to provide the contractors that serve them with the full diversity of our ideas and product lines -- from communications and entertainment systems, to televisions and our well-respected line of quiet, energy-efficient ventilation fans.

When corporate America comes in, they put their money where their mouth is. When they are here, that's a powerful message. It's not a charitable thing that they're doing, it's in their best interest. And it's in all of our best interests to recognize exactly what diversity is and what it means.

Viewers can be both entertained and educated by stories on television that reflect the diversity of families and communities across this country. Images on television and in film have the power to help Americans embrace their lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender family members, friends and neighbors with understanding and acceptance.

We are very proud, and thankful, to be recipients of the Oregon Cultural Trust. A new library will offer a way to preserve and respect our community's diversity and celebrate our community's Native American history.

We are very excited about the diversity of artists and performances.

Both events have the broad appeal for males and females with a wide range of people and ethnic diversity, so they will allow us to have a broader range of creative work over both events.

Even in a city like New York, we talk about opening housing and diversity and access to housing, but it is a major problem. It's gonna be one of my priorities as the attorney general.

Assuring there is adequate housing for the work force is an economic issue. You cannot have jobs and economic diversity unless you have housing.

Diversity? They don't have diversity on cable. They can't show you diversity on the cable dial.

Diversity should not be part of the bargaining process,

Diversity really means becoming complete as human beings - all of us. We learn from each other. If you're missing on that stage, we learn less. We all need to be on that stage.

Diversity is the lifeblood of our vibrant city. The Conga Room is proud to partner with l.a. live to showcase its unique brand of Latin culture and music.

diversity is one of the strengths of the country.

Diversity is a phrase that's tossed around, but we actually approach this as a business subject and measure how effective diversity management is in Corporate America.

Diversity in education is not a waste of time. It should be a national goal, and it's a goal we're going to keep fighting for.

Diversity in all of its definitions continues to be a key focus in our recruitment efforts and also a consideration in succession planning because we recognize diversity as a strength that will help us compete more effectively in a global marketplace.

Diversity has more to do than with what you write on job applications.

Diversity and inclusion is a key business imperative for us.

EPA believes its cap-and-trade rule is the best approach to protect public health by reducing mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants while maintaining fuel diversity and energy security,

Each member of the band has varied influences,and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase.