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"Thus the races, though alike in their physical response to climate, may possibly be different in their mental response because they have approached America by different paths."
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"They tell us variety is the spice of life - and yet diversity terrifies them."

"Hating skin color is contempt for God's divine creative imagination. Honoring it is appreciation for conscious, beautiful-love-inspired diversity."

"There never were two opinions alike in all the world no more than two hours or two grains: the most universal quality is diversity."

"Embrace your diverse, prismatic colors! They make you uniquely you!"

"Individuals who speak languages other than English, who speak patois as well as standard English, find it a necessary aspect of self-affirmation not to feel compelled to chose one voice over another, not to claim one as more authentic but rather to construct social realities that celebrate, acknowledge and affirm differences, variety."

"Any regime or any government which motivates its own people to be different than one another is a good regime, is a good government! Encourage people to think differently, to act differently, and to believe in different things, otherwise you create just a herd of animals!"

"Those who have darkness in their minds turn their bodies into darkness as well! Life is colourful; be like a rainbow, use every colour! Don't get stuck in one colour, be colourful! Black, red, yellow, green, let all the colours be your colours! Those who have colourful minds will have colourful bodies as well!"

"Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law."
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"In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home."

"Although farming of any sort was almost as impossible in the plains as in the dry regions of winter rains farther west, the abundance of buffaloes made life much easier in many respects."

"Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers."

"After washing there was no place to pour the water except out of the window onto the heads of the people in the streets, which is the proper place to throw everything that is not wanted."

"For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race."

"Surprising as it may seem, this study indicates that similar conditions are best for all sorts of races."

"As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie."

"Today, no less than in the past, the tetrahedral form of the earth and the relation of the tetrahedron to the poles and to the equator preserve the conditions that favor rapid evolution."

"A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days."
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