#dive

Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, revelling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#community

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

First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a communist; Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a socialist; Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist; Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— because I was not a Jew; Then they came for me— and there was no one left to speak out for me. ↗

— Martin Niemöller

#compassion #cowardice #diversity #human-rights #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

What is wrong with you?' I shake my head. 'Pull it together.' And that's what it feels like: pulling the different parts of me up and in like a shoelace. I feel suffocated, but at least I feel strong. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#dauntless #divergent #insurgent #tris-prior #bravery

The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#diversion #first #government #late #learned

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel. ↗

— James Allen

#diverting #forces #into #powerful #process

I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people. ↗

— Marc Almond

#complete opposite #confusing #diverse #i #i think

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#diversity #early #parents #people #strength

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