Frances Hesselbein Quotes

Most of my diversity conversations are had with the majority population, because frankly, those people are the people who have the most influence over everybody's career.

If you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity?

A full commitment to integration means taking all reasonable steps to dismantle these barriers, even if this necessitates reforming long established practices that were not imposed with the intent to disadvantage the racial minorities but do so nonetheless.

I would like to attract more minorities into the game. But it's extremely important that this golf look like - that golf look like America.

I think it's worth putting energy into affirmative action in terms of having diversity in positions of power because the door was shut for so long.

Changing the dialogue and behaviors around race and equality in sports starts with removing barriers and creating opportunities.

It's really important to me to follow the kinds of conversations that happen around diversity and representation and writing inclusive books.

What I do used to be called 'diversity training,' then 'cultural competency' and now, 'anti-racism.' These terms are really useful for periods of time, but then they get coopted, and people build all this baggage around them, and you have to come up with new terms, or else people won't engage.

What we hope to achieve is a society that doesn't value a white man because he's a white man, but also doesn't value a woman because she's a woman, or a black because he's a black.

You must make sure that the majority of the people are not marginalized.

We've heard the excuses from those responsible for hiring that they don't want to take a chance on a new director. But the truth is that the industry hires new directors all the time; it's just that most of them are white males.

There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance out those effects.

Once you open up the Pandora's box of race and gender... you're never done.

Our work to provide equal opportunities for all Americans should be a year-round mission.

I use the term 'disabled people' quite deliberately, because I subscribe to what's called the social model of disability, which tells us that we are more disabled by the society that we live in than by our bodies and our diagnoses.

Our workforce and our entire economy are strongest when we embrace diversity to its fullest, and that means opening doors of opportunity to everyone and recognizing that the American Dream excludes no one.

That's what liberalism is all about, is promoting incompetence on the basis it's fair, because people would be the best if they weren't discriminated against.

All children should have equal opportunities.

As a philanthropist, I try to help people take ownership. Everything I've done is rooted in the notion that every human being is born equally capable. What people lack is equal opportunity.

There is a certain danger in thinking about diversity in its own little box, as something that is somehow separate from 'normal' comic books and comics creators.

Our aim is a totally new and just constitutional dispension in which every inhabitant will enjoy equal rights, treatment and opportunity in every sphere of endeavour—constitutional, social and economic.

The only way you get to the goal of color blindness is to be color conscious along the way.

To ignore race and sex is racist and sexist.

We seek not just freedom, but opportunity … not just equality as a right and a theory, but equality as a fact and as a result.

We seek ... not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and as a result.