Quotes About Inclusion

When you're 27 million strong, no one can tell you that you don't belong or expect you to just move along.

I see how people look at me, all around the world. They see something because of the race I belong to. I have to understand that and put it into my music.

In society, you are taught to belong. You have to belong to something.

I belong to the Bohri community.

I was one of those players that had to come in and prove that I can belong on this field with these girls, and I can hang in this league as well.

I never felt like I belong to anything - to any groups of friends. I never really had that.

I know what it feels like to be on the outside, a place that you don't belong, feeling like you're the only one of your kind.

For me racism doesn't belong to football and it doesn't belong in our society any more.

To some extent I'm always looking to see where I belong.

I want to show who I am, show my best tennis, show why I'm there, why I belong.

Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.

Acting was the only place that I ever felt like I belonged so went for it with everything I had.

I just always wanted to be part of something where I felt like I belonged.

We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.

In the final analysis, we are one people, one family, one house—not just the house of black and white, but the house of the South, the house of America

When the nation sees differently, it enhances its capacity to act differently. From Seneca Falls to Selma to Stonewall, America has gradually expanded who's included when the country speaks of "We the People.

It is," TR said, "a base outrage to oppose a man because of his religion or birthplace, and all good citizens will hold any such effort in abhorrence.

all those who conduct themselves worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protection of civil government.

The work of reformers—long, hard, almost unimaginably difficult work—can lead to progress and a broader understanding of who is included in the phrase "We, the People" that opened the Preamble of the Constitution. And that work unfolds still.

He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American, without being cursed and spit upon by his fellows

Lincoln would come to see democracy as a work in progress, a process in which reason took its chances against prejudice and passion.

In the final analysis, we are one people, one family, one house—not just the house of black and white, but the house of the South, the house of America," Lewis said. "We can move ahead, we can move forward, we can create a multiracial community, a truly democratic society. I think we're on our way there. There may be some setbacks. But we are going to get there. We have to be hopeful. Never give up, never give in, keep moving on.

A young person should be speaking out for what is fair, what is just, what is right. Speak out for those who have been left out and left behind. That is how the movement goes on.

The message of the civil rights movement was straightforward, and it was a message grounded in hope: We are one people; we are one family; we all live in the same house—the American house, the world house.