Quotes About Inclusion

I'd never thought of Ernie as black. He was just my best friend.

Celia laughed. "You're like a seventeen-year-old girl on a prom date. Color is a fact of life, Del. The people who say they don't see color, or race, are the people who do. We see good-looking people and funny people, obnoxious people. Why shouldn't we see something so obvious as color?

We are supposed to represent a Lord who came not to judge the world but to save it. Our business should be simply to keep everybody in the net of his kingdom until we reach the farther shore. Sorting is strictly his department, not ours.

Don't join too many gangs. Join few if any.Join the United States and join the family—But not much in between unless a college.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.

In essence, we tend to sort each other and ourselves into groupings, and that usually leads to an overestimation of similarities between members of a group, and an underestimation of the similarities between insiders and outsiders.

we tend to sort each other and ourselves into groupings, and that usually leads to an overestimation of similarities between members of a group, and an underestimation of the similarities between insiders and outsiders.

there's one thing I 'ate, it's treating people diff'rent because of where they were born.

Why d'you think they feel the need to tell Londoners they're just as good? Isn't that a given?" "Just London, isn't it?" said Strike, as they crossed the road. "Pisses everyone off." "I love London." "Me too. But I can see why it pisses everyone off.

A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love.

Remember that your model is not against space but in it.

Make sure that slow learners are rewarded—or at least not punished— for expressing their deviant views and acting in odd ways.

If you hire people who prompt discomfort in yourself and others, take extra care to listen to their ideas and insist that others do so as well.

Over the years, we have come to identify quality in a college not by whom it serves but by how many students it excludes. Let us not be a sacred priesthood protecting the temple, but rather the fulfillers of dreams.

He whom Jesus nameth must be on His side.

My Canada includes Quebec—but its license plates no longer call it La belle province. I can't remember what they say now.

The issue is whether we'll invite those who are currently taken for nobodies into the human family or force them to crash our gates.

Why must people be hateful toward anyone who is different? Because we live in a fallen world, my girl. I'm afraid people will continue to find reasons to hate until the day Jesus returns.

If you were going to be best friends with anyone – Kevin – you had to hate a lot of other people, the two of you, together. It made you better friends.

By applauding Robinson, a man did not feel that he was taking a stand on school integration, or on open housing. But for an instant he had accepted Robinson simply as a hometown ball player. To disregard color, even for an instant, is to step away from the old prejudices, the old hatred. That is not a path on which many double back.

In short, freedom belongs to individuals only by virtue of their membership in the 'we'.

because there was no place where I felt more at home in a public assembly than in this old church

Englishmen do love to bury one thing so completely in another that the two can only be separated by force: peanuts in candy, indigo in glass, Africans in irons.