#divers

Diversity gives our city a competitive edge. ↗

— Thomas Menino

#competitive #diversity #edge #gives #our

The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only one right way to live, only one right way to regulate religious, political, sexual, medical affairs is the root cause of the greatest threat to man: members of his own species, bent on ensuring his salvation, security, and sanity. ↗

— Thomas Stephen Szasz

#diversity #age

If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear. ↗

— Gene Roddenberry

#diversity #idic #tolerance #attitude

Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is diverse. Some will read with empathy and curiosity while others will take offense. ↗

— John Barton

#censor #curiosity #diverse #does #empathy

With the Internet, we can choose the very communities we want to be a part of. ↗

— Alex Shakar

#communication #diversity #freedom #communication

I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#diversity #life

But we had a pretty diversified portfolio of businesses around the world and things tended to offset each other. But one or two years ago, we had a lot of things happening at the same time. ↗

— Jim Cantalupo

#around #businesses #diversified #each #had

It angered him that his sexuality was an issue at all. As far as he was concerned, who he decided to sleep with was his business alone. ↗

— Christina Westover

#gay #homosexuality #kurt-cobain #lesbian-lgbt #love

I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies. ↗

— Ted Turner

#fortune #good #good fortune #had #i

In a culture of diversity, one group is likely not "just like everyone else." To deny that we have different needs, concerns, thought processes, worldview, is to refuse to look at the reason we are supposedly an identifiable community. ↗

— Anthony D. Ravenscroft

#equality #relationships #equality