Quotes About Inclusion

My becoming the CEO is a testament to our long commitment to diversity inclusion. And I intend to really focus and really pay that forward for our future diverse leaders at Deloitte.

The pilots I did test for, I was the only black actor testing against white actors for parts that were written white.

If interviewers are prejudiced against women or Hispanics, for example, a face-to-face interview will predictably result in discrimination. Reliance on tests, or on actual or past performance, can promote equality.

I'd been taught from an early age that I was in the 'other' category on the standardized tests. You know, I had to go down the checklist - Caucasian, African-American, Latino, Asian-Pacific Islander, and then, you know, at the bottom is other. So, you know, very early on I was taught, in a way, that I was somehow this anomaly.

it's no longer possible to believe that White Christian America sets the tone for the country's culture as a whole.

Christians began to slip in the late 1990s, expanding the tent to include white Catholics helped perpetuate the illusion that White Christian America was still the country's dominant religious culture. But

I wanted to be part of the gang, and the quickest way to screw up something like that is to act like a drag

Jake Gittes: Do you accept people of the Jewish persuasion? Mr. Palmer: I'm sorry, we do not. Jake Gittes: Don't apologize - neither does Dad.

Yale political scientist Robert Dahl asked. "And if citizens cannot be political equals, how is democracy to exist?

Does this mean that in some places I'm American and in some places I'm African American and in other places, by logical extension, I'm nobody?

We need a seat at the table … If we're not at the table, we're probably on the menu.

Strange, how being left out of a secret always feels like a betrayal of trust.

Three Ships folk know that what a person has for a mind is more important than what is between their legs. Three Ships women will not give up our place alongside our men simply to say we are part of Bingtown now.

beings we think of and therefore speak of as persons worthy of our respect, of inclusion in a peopled world.

when three hundred voices all joined together, all those voices, in measured cadence, from the gray-haired school nurse's to the kindergarteners', made me feel part of something. It was as if for a moment our minds were one.

But the Mohawk call themselves the Kanienkeha - People of the Flint - and flint does not melt easily into the great American melting pot

Now Preacher might manage a bar and hang out with men primarily, but he was unaccustomed to fathers who pushed their children out of sight. Rudely, at that. In his crowd, families were appreciated. Most of his friends were married with children, and the children were a part of everything. The women were nearly worshiped.

In this day and age of racial tension, gender fluidity, and political polarization, how do you most define yourself?

Now, Megan, we can't pick on whoever abstained.

restricted to thirty students.

They hadn't discriminated against John because he was a man

Please, siddown.

We've tried to keep her connected to her Chinese background and we've always felt really good about that, but what if, instead of building her Chinese identity, it's only served to make her feel separate from us and not 100 percent our daughter?

The Clique.... the only thing harder than getting in is staying in.