Quotes About Inclusion

There's only so many times you can write the story about the gay teammate.

Our commitment to integrity, our commitment to diversity and inclusion, to respecting our teammates - that's what makes this business work.

In 1983, my second year of law school, I became the only white player in the Ogden Park Basketball League at 65th and Racine. My teammates joked that I integrated the league, which I guess is true. They weren't so much focused on integration as on winning, and they knew you can't teach height. 'He can't jump, but he sure is tall.'

On or off the team, I will still feel that I am with my teammates.

I am one with all my teammates.

We need everyone, every game. So I'm not going to put myself in the position to hurt my team or my teammates.

I'll contribute any way I can, whether it's cheering my teammates on or being in the game.

I like to get teammates involved.

The music I like or the football teams I like or the food I eat has nothing to do with me being black.

The best companies will build culturally diverse leadership teams and workforces with divergent backgrounds, perspectives, and ideas.

You are the world, Letha..

You know, we've finally made it. We did it this time. They'll never be able to hide us again.

Roughly five thousand African Americans would eventually serve in the Continental Army, a more integrated national force than would exist for nearly two centuries.

They reported how when he took over as president of Phoenix Country Club in 1949, he said if they didn't allow his friend Harry Rosenzweig to join he would blackball every name. Rosenzweig became the first Jew the club ever admitted. Left out of the tale was that another Jew wasn't allowed in for a decade.

But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they've been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children, because they will become a drag on our society.

If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.

I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.

That's my dogma. Just borrow any old god-damn religion that happens to be around when you need it and enjoy the pleasure of being with welcoming people. Today, on windy Rocky Ridge beneath a hard blue Wyoming sky, I was a Mormon.

assumption prevents us from acknowledging the full humanity

with Daniel, and Daniel's friend Howard and his girlfriend

Thank goodness you can't see cherries in a chocolate bar. I'd have been a red-faced rose if not for my Hershey brown complexion

The Soul Brothers and Sister Lou and The Outsiders

Come, come, whoever you are . . . Come, even if you have broken your vows A hundred times, Come, come again, come. —RUMI

But bringing people together is what music has always done best.