In the early 90s I was getting flak – particularly from the British comics press – for not being political enough. People were doing political comics about how Margaret Thatcher was a bad person, and I was talking about diversity of race and gender and sexuality. When I was asked about it in interviews I […]
Diversity Quotes
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
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.
You don’t get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
Diversity has no inherent value, but is simply a fact of life, which may be employed or endured either well or badly. My circle of friends is diverse. So is my household garbage.
When faculty and administrators talk about “diversity,” the term is used as a euphemism for left-wing conformity, an inversion of the word’s true meaning. As Thomas Sowell has observed, when folks on campus talk about creating a “diverse faculty,” they mean they want to hire a faculty that includes black leftists, Asian leftists, Hispanic leftists, […]
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common. Celebrate it every day.
Vitality springs from diversity – which makes for real progress so long as there is mutual toleration, based on the recognition that worse may come from an attempt to suppress differences than from acceptance of them. For this reason, the kind of peace that makes progress possible is best assured by the mutual checks created […]
Some like carrots, others like cabbage.
Not one of the multicultural classicists really wishes to live under indigenous pre-Colombian ideas of government, Arabic protocols for female behavior, Chinese canons of medical ethics, Islamic traditions of church and state, African approaches to science, Japanese ideas of race, Indian social castes, or Native American notions of private property.
