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Quotes About Inclusion

I met someone with a title on my first day, Baronet von Something, and I thought: 'Look at me, I've really grafted. Who are these people who have just waltzed into Oxford? I don't want to hang out with those people. They're nothing like me.'
~ Fiona Bruce
If you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican?
~ Cher
Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.
~ Gertrude Stein
And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.
~ Wendell Willkie
I am not interested in splitting the white vote.
~ Harold Washington
No longer should women be denied the right to vote, no longer should women be treated as second class citizens, no longer should women not be allowed to be a citizen at all.
~ Ginny Brown-Waite
Where Negroes provide 20 percent of the vote, they should have 20 per cent of the jobs.
~ Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
I am an immigrant with a Green Card and, therefore, I am not eligible to vote in a federal election.
~ David Byrne
If you think the President was right to open the doors of American opportunity to young immigrants brought here as children who want to go to college or serve in the military, you should vote for Barack Obama.
~ William J. Clinton
To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.
~ John Lewis
Either one is French and can vote, or one is not French and cannot vote.
~ Marine Le Pen
I voted against Donald Trump for every American who looks and sounds like me. Because we love this country. We are proud of this country. We stand as equals in the United States of America.
~ Ana Navarro
Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.
~ Andrew Young
I think, at the end of the day, especially for municipal elections, we see relatively low voter turnout. So the goal is to expand who sees themselves reflected in government, who's empowered to take the lead in politics.
~ Michelle Wu
End racial and ethnic gerrymandering, stop voter I.D. laws that seek to suppress voters of color, and make sure everyone can add their voice and their vote to this great democracy.
~ Beto O'Rourke
When voters know what Democrats stand for, we can improve the lives of all Americans, no matter their race, religion or sexual orientation.
~ Keith Ellison
As an organizer in the most underrepresented communities in my state, I have felt the frustration that so many voters must feel when other states limit polling locations, require photo IDs, and put unnecessary barriers in front of voters.
~ Deb Haaland
No voters will be left behind.
~ Donna Brazile
Language has historically stood as a barrier for some voters seeking to participate in the electoral process.
~ Eric Schneiderman
Selma helped make it possible for hundreds and thousands of people in the South to become registered voters and encouraged people all across America to become participants in a democratic process.
~ John Lewis
Muslims, like most other voters, don't just want 'one of their own,' they want someone who best represents their values.
~ Sadiq Khan
Is Trump correct that we should stop the flow of illegal immigrants? Yes, but again, words matter, and there is a way to engage voters on this issue without creating fear and insulting many hard-working Hispanics who love this country.
~ Mercedes Schlapp
Many young people don't vote because they feel unwelcome and irrelevant, and that's the system's fault... As much as MTV tries to get them to vote, politicians don't include young voters because young voters don't donate money.
~ Ken Hakuta
As a black artist in America, you know, it is so segregated as far as the radio goes and how they position music on the radio.
~ Kelis