Ethnic Diversity Quotes:

We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this nation.

- Cesar Chavez

topic: Diversity, Community, Parent, Inspirational Diversity, Ethnic Diversity

This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?

- Azar Nafisi

topic: Girl, Religious, Islamic, Degrade, Flogging

Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.

- Bashar al-Assad

topic: Diversity, Fabric, Social, Ethnic Diversity

Our expanding ethnic diversity of this century, a time when we will all be minorities, offers us an invitation to create a larger memory of who we are as Americans and to re-affirm our founding principle of equality. Let's put aside fears of the disuniting of America and warnings of the clash of civilizations. As Langston Hughes sang, Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.

- Ronald Takaki

source: "What does it mean to be Asian American? / The passing of Cal Prof. Ronald Takaki, who helped define the term, leads Jeff Yang to reflect on its relevance in the Age of Obama" by Jeff Yang, www.sfgate.com. June 4, 2009.

topic: Time, Memories, Equality, Clash Of Civilizations, Ethnic Diversity

There's a lot of really wonderful things about the United States of America, especially its ethnic diversity and its mostly successful struggle to create a democracy out of many different cultures. So, we have a lot of capital as a people, we have a lot of cultural capital to keep our democracy going.

- Hector Tobar

source: Source: www.slate.com

topic: Struggle, Successful, America, Ethnic Diversity

I think there's a huge parallel that affects my musical taste, and connections that have to do with my ethnic diversity and my musical tastes and the diversity of that. And it's interesting that, growing up on the circuit, it posed such a challenge, not only to me deciding what my identity was amongst my peers, but then on the music side, it was like trying to explain or convince people especially in the music industry that there was a place for what I was trying to do. But at the same time, I think it has a lot to do with timing and even me, like, understanding it.

- Miguel

source: Source: us.napster.com

topic: Growing Up, Thinking, Diversity, Musical Taste, Ethnic Diversity

Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity.

- William Hague

topic: Religious, Party, Diversity, Ethnic Diversity

I would love to see an America where race is understood in the same way that the ethnic diversity of the white population is understood.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: www.politico.com

topic: Race, White, America, Ethnic Diversity

I coach church planters to look at the ethnic diversity of schools and neighborhoods they are near. This will be an indicator how ethnically diverse their congregation can become.

- Derwin L. Gray

source: "The Gospel and Multiethnic Churches: An Interview with Derwin Gray". Interview with Preston Sprinkle, www.patheos.com. January 11, 2016.

topic: School, Diversity, Church, Ethnic Diversity, Planters