Quotes about Diversity
When God is depicted only as a white man, only white men seem godly.
— Gloria Steinem
I'm not advocating a competition for who has it toughest. The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together. It's time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers.
— Gloria Steinem
I remind you that no man who makes disparaging remarks concerning those of another race can consider himself a true disciple of Christ," said President Hinckley. "How can any man holding the Melchizedek Priesthood arrogantly assume that he is eligible for the priesthood whereas another who lives a righteous life but whose skin is of a different color, is ineligible?
— Gordon Hinckley
My Uncle, of course, would have been pleased to see someone with brown skin holding the office of president.
— Alveda King
We live in a world where we have friends, neighbors, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, people we journey with for years who are gay. And we need to love, affirm and all of us together work on the real problems that we have in the world.
— Rob Bell
Comments that suggest that Muslims should be banned from the United States are offensive and unconstitutional.
— Mike Pence
And I've always said, 'If two people think the same thing about everything, one of them isn't necessary.' We need to be able to understand that if we're going to make real progress.
— Ben Carson
Until we reach equality in education, we can't reach equality in the larger society.
— Sonia Sotomayor
Some of my best men are women!
— William Booth
Three women walk into a pub and say, 'Hooray, we've colonised a male-dominated joke format'
— Bill Bailey
Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.
— Gloria Steinem
I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
— Nelson Mandela