Diverse Society Quotes

• In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Reality, Multicultural Society, People

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• We're a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we're all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that's a marvelous thing.

  Billy Graham

  Jobs, Thinking, Together

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• Any suggestion that the most open and diverse society on the planet is likely to in any way resemble Russia requires a suspension of common sense that is pretty hard to deal with.

  Newt Gingrich

  Russia, Common Sense, Suggestions

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Part of what we have to do a better job of, if our democracy is to function in a complicated diverse society like this, is to teach our kids enough critical thinking to be able to sort out what is true and what is false, what is contestable and what is incontestable. And we seem to have trouble with that. And our political system doesn't help.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• I do think that the U.S. has an opportunity as a democracy to really exemplify what a religiously diverse society can be when it embraces the pluralism.

  Diana L. Eck

  Opportunity, Thinking, Democracy

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The UK had plenty of people in their country just like we have here who had the same attitudes about immigration that you find on the American left and the Democrat Party here. That the Brits, because of colonialism and because the British Empire had been so unfair to people all over the world it was time to pay the price. And you had liberals who thought that all of this was making a grand diverse society and population which would improve things in the UK.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Attitude, Party

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• For me, I want to see diversity in storytelling sources because we live in a very diverse society, and the stories are for the whole society. That's really important. For me, as a female filmmaker, when I was out on the festival circuit on 2006, I felt like such a freaking anomaly - an oddity.

  Lynn Shelton

  Oddities, Diversity, Important

  "Sundance Interview with Lynn Shelton - Director of Touchy Feely". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, womenandhollywood.com.

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• It is the freedom to blaspheme, to transgress, to move beyond the pale, that is at the heart of all intellectual, artistic and political endeavor. Far from censoring offensive speech, a vibrant and diverse society should encourage it. In any society that is not uniform, grey and homogeneous, there are bound to be clashes of viewpoints.

  Kenan Malik

  Freedom, Moving, Heart

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• If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire is by its nature offensive. So is much art and political discourse. The value of these expressions far outweighs their risk.

  Erica Jong

  Art, Expression, Political

  Erica Jong (2007). “What Do Women Want?: Essays by Erica Jong”, p.84, Penguin

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• This book is a must for anyone who wants to know how leaders develop their practices within a community context. Bordas has pulled together illuminating examples with great lessons for anyone working to create an equitable and truly diverse society.

  Rinku Sen

  Book, Practice, Community

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• Because you have seen something doesn't mean you can explain it. Differing interpretations will always abound, even when good minds come to bear. The kernel of indisputable information is a dot in space; interpretations grow out of the desire to make this point a line, to give it direction. The directions in which it can be sent, the uses to which it can be put by a culturally, professionally, and geographically diverse society are almost without limit. The possibilities make good scientists chary.

  Barry Lopez

  Mean, Space, Giving

  Barry Lopez (2013). “Arctic Dreams”, p.190, Open Road Media

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• In Europe there's kind of a reaction to the European Union, kind of a move towards some kind of regionalization. It's more advanced in some regions than others, like in Spain for example. Catelan was repressed under Franco. People spoke it, but not publicly. It's now the language of Catelonia. The Basque language is being revived, not just the language but the culture, the folk music and everything else. So you're getting more diverse societies, and it's happening in Britain as well.

  Noam Chomsky

  Moving, Europe, People

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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