Quotes About Inclusion

We learn more from people who are different from us than ones who are the same.

The leader, mingling with the vulgar host, Is in the common mass of matter lost.

As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.

Do not ever say to anybody it's time for us to have a woman in the leadership, because that's the least important selling point.

I ask the clergy why don't I see myself represented in leadership? And I'm told, and this happens quite a bit, "We don't think about race when we hire. We just hire the best person for the job."

Make a commitment to serve the needs of the 'least of these' and give voice to the voiceless.

Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club -the community of speakers of that language.

The world cannot afford to lose the talents of half it's people if we are to solve the many problems that beset us.

I'm seeing too many smart kind of socially awkward kids, a lot milder than I was, not getting employment because they're not learning job skills.

Not everyone has equal abilities, but everyone should have equal opportunity for education.

Don't raise the bar and narrow the gap, but narrow the gap to raise the bar.

I'm learning that to be at home everywhere, I have to be sure to include the place I actually live.

Every learner has special needs.

Schools cannot shut their gates and leave the outside world on the doorstep.

If people are made to feel uncomfortable in the kitchen, they won't go in there. That's why I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing.

Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.

We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all, both legal and economic justice.

I consider myself a crayon... I may not be your favorite color but one day you'll need me to complete your picture.

People will make a life in their own terms, whether they are deaf or colorblind or autistic or whatever. And their world will be quite as rich and interesting and full as our world.

Ethnicity should enrich us; it should make us a unique people in our diversity and not be used to divide us.

The more the merrier.

Life's piano can only produce melodies of brotherhood (and sisterhood) when it is recognized that the black keys are as basic, necessary and beautiful as the white keys.

Invite people into your life who don't look or act like you. You might find they challenge your assumptions and make you grow.

Having Down syndrome is like being born normal. I am just like you and you are just like me. We are all born in different ways, that is the way I can describe it. I have a normal life.