Quotes about "Diversity & Inclusion"

Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father. ”

Human beings are addicted to power in an interesting way, and this is what makes a lot of people feel powerful: belittling people that are commonly belittled. I think if we understood that this was going on, that this was the mechanism at work within us, we wouldn't be that way. ”

My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent. ”

The power to question is the basis of all human progress. ”

So many people have been abused. It's not rare; it's a very common human experience, and we survive. ”

What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history. ”

It's the nature of a human that when you get neglected somewhere, you want to go back and prove a point. ”

Hope will be found by understanding that diversity is the essence of the American Dream and why we need each other to fulfill it. ”

Your understanding of music depends on your capacity to perceive it. ”

I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture. ”