We used to look at each other and say, 'We play the same game with the same rules, the same bat, the same ball, the same field. What the hell does color have to do with it? You don't play with color. You play with talent.'
Interpretation
The essence of talent transcends racial or ethnic differences.
This quote by Monte Irvin conveys the idea that the true measure of one's abilities and skills lies not in superficial characteristics like race, but rather in inherent talent and dedication. It emphasizes the importance of judging individuals based on their capabilities rather than external attributes, promoting equality and unity in the pursuit of excellence.
In practice
This quote could be a powerful addition to a speech on diversity in sports.
You are the Children of God, the sharers of immortal bliss, holy and perfect beings. You divinities on earth. Come up, O lions, and shake off the delusion that you are sheep; you are souls immortal, spirits free, blest and eternal; you are not matter, you are not bodies; matter is your servant,not you the servant of matter.
The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others.
For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.
In Japan, I live in a little neighborhood in the middle of nowhere. I don't have a bicycle or a car or anything, so my only movement is within the boundaries of my feet. I feel there's a need for that kind of conscientious objection to the momentum of the world.
What we experience is our own concept of things. That is why no two people see quite the same world, and why, in many cases, different people see such different worlds. To put it another way, we make our own world by the way in which we think; for we really do live in a world of our own thoughts.
Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
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