Quotes about Diversity

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

The destiny of the colored American ... is the destiny of America.

No man whose vision is bounded by colour can come into contact with what is highest and best in the world.

God has given different gifts for different people. There is no basis for feeling inferior to another who has a different gift. Once it is realised that we shall be judged by the gift we have received, rather than the gift we have not, one is completely delivered from a false sense of inferiority.

Religious leaders have agreed not to disagree and those beliefs for which some of our ancestors would have died they have melted into a spineless Humanism.

Almost always, great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before.

People inside of belonging systems are very threatened by those who are not within that group. They are threatened by anyone who has found their citizenship in places they cannot control.

Men and women aren't the same. And they won't be the same. That doesn't mean that they can't be treated fairly.

I don't think I've been to any country where everybody was supportive - there's always churches or groups who don't like my theology or that we associate with this group or that group.

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

All the networks have always been willing to have ethnic people as the third or fourth lead or the best friend to the white person. But to actually let a black family or an Asian family carry a show, that's something where there hasn't really been a precedent set in terms of a real financial gain.

When you talk about evangelicals, don't forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans - well over 90 percent, thoroughly evangelical, thoroughly biblical - will probably vote Democratic.