In the law, rights are islands of empowerment. . . . Rights contain images of power, and manipulating those images, either visually or linguistically, is central in the making and maintenance of rights. In principle,...

Valuing a writer only for their diversity, but not their humanity or talent – that’s tokenism.

It is easier to tell a person what life is not, rather than to tell them what it is. A child understands weeds that grow from lack of attention, in a garden. However, it is...

The geniuses of all ages and of all lands speak different languages but the same flame burns in them all. Oh, if you only knew what unearthly happiness my soul feels now from being able...

It appears to be more about trade than the promotion of cultural diversity. The World Trade Organization is the place for (trade),

Father, I am from a different egg than your other children. Think of me as a duckling raised by hens. I am not a domestic bird destined to spend his life in a chicken coop....

I not only stand on my two feet, but I walk on my two feet for my two feet.

It is a big deal to work with people who are different from you. And if you’re white or of a higher class,no matter what race you are, you’ll probably mess up. Maybe get yelled...

White heterosexual male characters need not disappear from narratives. They need not stop being central focus of some stories. They just need to stop taking most of the narrative space, and make more rooms to...

Unlike ‘other’ religious belief systems in competition with Christianity, we have not been called to become ‘absorbed’ into the deity but rather brought into communion with God through union with Christ thereby maintaining our unique...

Often we may even smile or laugh at adversity, but all people share the same passions. They are merely manifest differently according to one’s culture and conditioning.

The affinities of all the beings of the same class have sometimes been represented by a great tree.I believe this simile largely speaks the truth. The green and budding twigs may represent existing species; and...

Whenever socialism appears it destroys at least one thing: diversity. Everything has to be “the best”, but in reality as we know best things are scarse.. Let me remind you again, that for the Reds,...

No matter how different one looks or may seem, all are just shades in the colorful rainbow of life that loves everyone, no matter if they are short, purple, or green.

I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land–every color, and class, and rank; high officials and...

…Lovers think quite different thoughtswhile lying side by side.

If diversity is a source of wonder, its opposite – the ubiquitous condensation to some blandly amorphous and singulary generic modern culture that takes for granted an impoverished environment – is a source of dismay....

One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world.

Assuming Sandberg’s advice is completely useless for working-class women is just as shortsighted as claiming her advice needs to be completely applicable to all women. And let’s be frank: if Sandberg chose to offer career...

Yet they still remain afraid of their own citizens and the healthy diversity of news and views which defines a modern society .

[There] was a time when a lot of people came to the door. The milkman. The iceman. The Fuller Brush man. Encyclopedia salesmen. There was a sense of interaction with the world that started right...

To be a good writer, become a good listener.

transsexual” are all imperfect, historical, temporary, and arbitrary. We use them, and they use us. We use them to construct meaningful lives, and they mold us into historically specific forms of personhood. Instead of fighting...

Dare to travel on new paths.

Research on organised abuse emphasises the diversity of organised abuse cases, and the ways in which serious forms of child maltreatment cluster in the lives of children subject to organised victimisation (eg Bibby 1996b, Itziti...

This solidarity business I used to talk about ain’t just–what do you youngsters call it?–theoretical. It means putting your body, your physical self, on the line, baby girl. Even when–especially when–it ain’t convenient.

I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.

We have got some very big problems confronting us and let us not make any mistake about it, human history in the future is fraught with tragedy … It’s only through people making a stand...