Quotes About Inclusion

Until Systers came into existence, the notion of a global community of women in computer science did not exist.

To restore America's competitiveness, we must recruit a new generation of science and technology leaders by investing in diversity.

The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.

In life sciences, we find a reasonable balance between men and women. In engineering and computer science, we have a major problem. A very small percentage of women will be in computer science.

As one climbs up the ladders in society, one starts feeling more and more like an owner, less like a member of it.

Great men show politeness in a particular way; a smile suffices to assure you that you are welcome, and keep about their avocations as if you were a member of the family.

People have forgotten what the human touch is, what it is to smile, for somebody to smile at them, somebody to recognize them, somebody to wish them well. The terrible thing is to be unwanted.

I laugh with them because it is one of the worst things to be in a room full of people and not laughting when everybody else is.

The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.

Those we most often exclude from the normal life of society, people with disabilities, have profound lessons to teach us

Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.

There is no greater disability in society, than the inability to see a person as more.

As a society, we've learned that we're all better off when everyone is included in the opportunities of this great nation.

The quality of a society will be judged by what the least privileged in it achieves.

I use my job to engage empathy and compassion for people society might stereotype or ostricise.

I think it has a terrible impact when you don't see yourself reflected in the society because then you get the feeling you don't belong.

We cannot go back to a racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic type of society.

I do not believe in genetic causes; I am miles away from there. I believe rather that all people who embrace our [european] values, our laws and our constitution are full members of our society.

Racism is a disease in society. We're all equal. I don't care what their colour is, or religion. Just as long as they're human beings they're my buddies.

You can't build a society purely on interests, you need a sense of belonging.

If you want a strong society, it has to be inclusive. If you have to push a boulder up a hill, do you want 10 people or 100? If you weed out colour or gender, you get 10.

The most important thing to a lot of people, is to belong to something that's hip or whatever. To be a part of something that's not society, just a clique.

They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.