“Let us hang all our sectarian gods and idols. Let us start a new worship of love and liberty. Let us be prophets and messengers of harmony. Let us be disintegrated in realization of inclusivity.”
Source: Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live
“multiculturalism is the art of creating harmony out of diversity. [p58 Chapter 2: We were born to cooperate, not compete]”
Source: The Kindness Revolution: How we can restore hope, rebuild trust and inspire optimism
“...the organization wanted our racial diversity without our diversity of thought and culture.”
Source: I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
“Whiteness wants enough blackness to affirm the goodness of whiteness, the progressiveness of whiteness, the open-heartedness of whiteness. Whiteness likes a trickle of blackness, but only that which can be controlled.”
Source: I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
“I have been in the room when promises were made to diversify boardrooms, leadership teams, pastoral staff, faculty and staff positions, only to watch committees appoint a white man in the end. It's difficult to express how these incidences accumulate, making you feel undervalued, unappreciated, and ultimately...expendable.”
Source: I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
“What these companies need is a tech-savvy workforce with a deep empathetic understanding of people's behaviors, interactions, and preferences. For new technologies like these to reach their potential, they simply must be created by teams with a diverse set of perspectives.”
“Our stories cannot become more diverse and inclusive if the characters inside them are reduced to stereotypes.”
Source: Beyond Diversity
“Being a global citizen means appreciating our shared humanity no matter what nation you call home.”
Source: Beyond Diversity
“Food is perhaps the most accessible way to experience another culture. It does not require you to have a friend or colleague from another culture and you don’t even need to travel outside your hometown.”
Source: Beyond Diversity
“The reason diversity quotas or affirmative action initiatives exist is to open a door that might otherwise be shut. But opening that door just enough to let one person through and then letting it shut once more isn’t the progress we need.”
Source: Beyond Diversity