Mark Cuban Quotes

The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.

Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.

I always felt that it was never the duty of a person to really stand up for their gender or their race or anything like that - I always felt that was a personal choice. But I do feel now that maybe my opinion is evolving or changing a little bit.

What I do is I always try to educate myself about my neighbors, about the people I meet.

We want everybody in this country to be a NASCAR fan, and you can't do that by being insensitive in any one area.

I'd never presume to understand what it's like to be in a community I've never been a part of, but I can show up, listen and learn.

If you aren't committed to diversity of thought, you have no business launching a startup.

You have a responsibility to make inclusion a daily thought, so we can get rid of the word 'inclusion.'

If someone's different from you and it scares you or makes you mad, that's God telling you to take a closer look. If you're scared or mad, that's about you, not about the person who scares you or angers you.

I'm a very understanding person. That's something I was raised to be aware of - not everybody has the same shoes to fill or walks the same way or is on the same path.

My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.

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 want our students to be so accustomed to children of other cultures that the words 'diversity' and 'tolerance' won't be in their vocabulary. They won't need them - they'll live it.

When people ask where I studied to be an ambassador, I say my neighborhood and my school. I've tried to tell my kids that you don't wait until you're in high school or college to start dealing with problems of people being different. The younger you start, the better.

I am committed to examining my feelings and will recognize, appreciate and respect the differences among people in our society.

I feel that we have come a long way as American people, and we have to start looking at ourselves as human beings.

Terror will crash down on us if we fail to understand that a pluralistic society requires the personal and daily commitment of every citizen.

There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.

Everybody is sitting around saying, 'Well, jeez, we need somebody to solve this problem of bias.' That somebody is us. We all have to try to figure out a better way to get along.

I think that in many ways, gays are behind women and behind blacks, as far as rights go. But I always say, if you know one of us, it's hard to hate us.

I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.

I'm human, I'm not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I'm already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids.

If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.