Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual suspects during Black History Month or enjoying south-of-the-border cuisine on Cinco de Mayo. It means talking to and spending time with kids not like them so that they may discover those kids are in fact just like them.

My mom was concerned that us four little black girls have a really well-balanced life. She wanted us to be around people like us, but we also went to private school and traveled all the time. Now I fit in most places because I've been most places.

The kids think we're wacky. Mum and Dad are in showbiz - they don't know any other way. They've grown up travelling all over the world and are getting a worldly education. My son is 12 and he can speak eloquently on religions and cultures.

well-meaning programs celebrating multiculturalism … might aggravate more than educate, might intensify rather than diminish, intolerance.

That thing, multiculturalism, has basically taken over the curriculum, or what is taught in the public school system.

Racists are not born, they are raised. Isolation is the breeding ground for racism. The more you come to know the world around you and people different than you the less likely you will become an extremist. The Church needs to bring the world together.

When you get to see the world, it changes you. You realise that there are all kinds of people out there.

I try to support groups that are about educating people about different races, different religions, different cultures and different situations so that we can break down the barriers of prejudice and bigotry.

I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.

Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice.

I was a lot more cultured than the other kids in my high school. Because I traveled, I understood different cultures and had a more worldly view. Most of the people I went to high school with had never been outside of California.

Let me put it this way: when I read, I learned the world was not as small as my house. And that everybody in my home town was not representative of the way people in the world were raised. And that was what saved me.

Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia.

There are only two positions, either you support multiculturalism in American education, or you support the maintenance of white supremacy.

Indians should associate with English youths in a mixed school, and should be removed entirely from native influences.

If we are going to teach the world not to hate the other, then we will have to start with children.

A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.

We had representatives of most every ethnic group in the public school, and I always felt that this gave me a sense of balance about those ethnic problems that was useful to me in later life, and particularly in political life.

I was lucky to move around different cultures at an early age and have experience of different lifestyles.

I have been brought up watching world cinema, and I have travelled a lot, so I am very comfortable with my body.

Racism is about education. Racism is ignorance.

My school was actually really diverse.

I think it is so beneficial to English and British football when youngsters see different cultures and environments.

You have to go to other countries to realize Taipei is a place where there is diversity of thought.

I grew up in a very, very diverse neighborhood back home in Maryland. And when I see that on TV shows, it makes me want to watch it, personally. I just gravitate towards that.