Quotes About Inclusion

Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women: policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes.

Looking back to when I joined, some areas of policing were barred for women. So you couldn't do full public order training, you couldn't carry a firearm as a woman in the Met until 1988, there were no women dog handlers, and there was probably one woman in CID.

I support allowing homosexuals to serve openly in our military and eliminating the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy.

I have said it many times: the policy of exclusion and the policy of marginalization must end in Iraq.

I had kids make fun of me because not only was I blonde but also Polish.

I just don't accept midgets as human beings. There's only so much political correctness I can accept.

Black History Month is an annual opportunity to recognize the central role of African Americans in our state's economic, cultural, social and political history.

Through the years, I had became involved with social and political issues, such as racial discrimination.

The challenge is to open a new page in our political life and to take action so that everyone is able to find his or her place in France and in Europe.

When marginalized groups finally gained access to the ballot, it took time for them to organize around opposition to the specific forms of discrimination and mistreatment that continued to plague them - and longer still for political parties and candidates to respond to such activism.

No change in the balance of political parties can alter the general determination that no class should be excluded from contributing to and sharing responsibility for the state.

Equal rights should not be a partisan political issue - so why are all gay leaders in one political party?

I'm looking for some centrist political party to find a home in and it's not there, actually.

I figured if you live in a country long enough, you want to be a part of the political process, and you sort of owe it to your hosts. They've accepted you. Why wouldn't you accept them?

You can have great ideas, and you can have all the right policy goals. But unless you're expanding who is included in the political process, you won't connect the two.

It's so politically incorrect to make a character gay and then make them 'un-gay' again. Like, once you become gay, you've crossed over, or you're not allowed to be a person who doesn't want to be defined by a label like that.

I am not a politician by nature, but I will say I think there need to be more women in FIFA, and I would be open to having those conversations when the time is right.

All polling places should be safe, without discrimination against any religion.

I went where the boys in the family went. We would shoot basketball. We would shoot guns. We'd play cards. We'd go fishing at the pond.

In my own experience, when we have an open directing assignment of any kind, not just the big films, I would say it is the exception, not the rule, that there is a woman in the group of directors that we are interviewing. I think that's from the pool being so small.

I want my projects to be great, of course. The talent has to come from a diverse pool. Because that's the world we live in.

Diversity and inclusion of women and underrepresented minorities in science should not affect the way education is handled or research is carried out. So diversity should not be a problem but rather an opportunity to involve a large talent pool.

I think you can assume because our pool of Asian-Americans actresses or actors - men and women - is pretty small, that whatever project is out there I probably have been asked to audition or I probably chose to not go in it for various aspects.

You know, I love all kinds of activism. I certainly think blacks deserve to have something whether it is affirmative action or an opportunity that should be opened up to them. But at the same time I believe that people of color are not the only poor people in America and all over the world.