Quotes About Inclusion

that just because you never thought about someone didn't mean they weren't inside you.

Basketball was the first thing in William's life that loved him back.

her size bothered them, like a piece of mail they couldn't find a mailbox for. Still, there were other young

Mrs. Hedges, I believe you're prejudiced. I didn't know you were that human.' 'I ain't prejudiced,' she said firmly. 'I just ain't got no use for white folks. I don't want 'em anywhere near me. I don't even wanta have to look at 'em. I put up with you because you don't ever stop to think whether folks are white or black and you don't really care. That sort of takes you out of the white folks class.

Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.

In a society riven into 'us' and 'them', an ambitious young person might well want to be one of the group in the know, one of the unmolested. If there was never going to be an end to your country, and you could never leave, why wouldn't you opt for a peaceful life and a satisfying career?

Only the Black woman can say when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me.

women and men from around the world have clamored to be included in the status once given to Man.

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free …' Emma Lazarus New Colossus

Just imagine how many judgements we could avoid if there was a better understanding of Autism. (In 'A Place for Everything.' )

Everybody is an outsider, if you go deep enough. The trick is reassuring people that you're their kind of outsider.

The more we cull diversity, the more we are vulnerable to extinction,

How do we judge a dark landscape? Is it dark because the ones who already live there won't let humans have their piece of the world? Do we judge who is good and who is bad by the color and shape of their skin - or by what resonates in their hearts?

But other beings shouldn't be forgotten. You knew that when you were a student, felt that need from those no one else wanted to think about. Even demons need a home. Even a dark landscape should feel the warmth of the Light. Why have you forgotten that?

Do we judge who is good and who is bad by the color and shape of their skin - or by what resonates in their hearts?

Talking about us and them is part of what caused the trouble and got a lot of people killed in the past year.

Simon didn't want to poke his nose into a "girl thing." Potentially dangerous territory, that.

Innovation is made possible by the width and breadth of a person's rummaging around the world, in traffic with the living and the dead. It is by transgressing the boundaries that separate us that we begin to find solutions to the world's present complexities because inclusion and incorporation of "the other" creates the conditions for innovation.

Let Greeks be Greeks, and Women what they are.

Though she lived on the periphery of God's people and was unquestionably an outsider, Rahab nevertheless had eyes to see, ears to hear, a heart to hope, and a will to throw herself on God's mercy.

God loved Hagar as much as He loved Abraham!

And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit. EPHESIANS 1:13

Whoever welcomes one of these little children in my name welcomes me; and whoever welcomes me does not welcome me but the one who sent me. MARK 9:37

But you don't have to fit in to be okay. Believe me! I am the not-fitting-in world expert. I have not fit in in maybe five different countries so far. I am homelandless. I even make mistakes when I speak Bulgarian. But it's not big deal, not really. It's not the end of the world, right? It's okay.