Quotes About Inclusion

Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

Make your church a context where parents know that the right response to their teenagers is never to reject them as human beings, never to throw them out.

It says something really terrible when the least safe place to deal with sexual orientation and identity issues is the Christian family and church.

my own beloved sister, who is dearer to me than words can say and who came out as a lesbian

This same standard could one day be applied to Christian colleges vis-à-vis sexual-orientation discrimination.

That has excluded those who are unable to fulfill that prescription due to their sexual orientation.

There are millions of LGBTQ Christians.

certainly will be relevant to our witness to the state. But the fundamental need right now for Christians is to think seriously about whether the Church's own marginalized sexual minorities will be treated, unequivocally, as sisters and brothers in Christ.

The browning of America worries the weak and the wicked. Walls and fences will not keep this country white. Look at me: it is obvious that someone hopped a fence.

The more, and the louder, we come out today, the easier it will be for those who can't do so until tomorrow.

Meaning springs from belonging.

Doing so, however, reinforces a problematic "we" that discounts those with disabilities by suggesting all of us occupy failed embodiments in some way without an ability to attend to crip/queer materiality's nuances of experience.

Because if you left the straights to handle the party, it just wasn't going to happen.

When the Hawaiians appeared at Frontier Park, the audience and other cowboys paused to take them in: ornate leather chaps, long rawhide lariats, flowers around their hats, and dark skin—they were different in every way. To locals and tourists in Cheyenne, the paniolo were not just odd; they were interlopers.

We must find a way to do more than survive. We must fulfill our roles. Build a place for us within the society that seeks to exclude us. We must find our own path. A new path. One that allows us to grow and build a future for our children and give us hope. Here. In the land that is determined to cast

It takes a real man to be a trans woman

Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do.

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.

He was a kind fellow, though, Lorenzo. Old Lord Templeton-Vane held a country dance here in our honour. Lorenzo was the only one of us besides Tiberius to ask Elspeth Gresham to stand up with him." He looked around as if to make certain we were not overheard. "I don't like to say it, but that woman scares the life out of me, and there's no two ways about it.

I've had my ass grabbed more times than I care to count, and there was exactly one Black field agent in the first twelve years I worked for them.

Some people are designed to be included in your story but not part of your destiny.

The validation of your dreams is not in the colour of your skin but in the quality of your heart.

There is only one Human race but many nations with diverse tribes.

Wherever, I am welcome, there is my home.