Quotes About Inclusion

Stanley was thankful that there were no racial problems. X-Ray, Armpit, and Zero were black. He, Squid, and Zigzag were white. Magnet was Hispanic. On the lake they were all the same reddish brown color—the color of dirt.

David shared his worktable with a girl.

How odd, I thought, that even though I don't believe it still feels nice to be included.

When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished.

She slowed to pick her way through places where water was seeping up through the mats of dying grass. Rain tapping through the brilliant leaves the only sound. She stopped. The sense of something there, with her, all around her, swirling and seething with energy. How intimately the trees seized the earth. How exquisitely she was included. Patrice closed her eyes and felt a tug. Her spirit poured into the air like song.

If I die, don't take this too hard, she counseled them, death is only part of things bigger than we can imagine. Our brains are just starting the greatness, to learn how to do things like flying. What next? You will see, and you will see that your mother is of the design. And I will always be made of things, and things will always be made of me. Nothing can get rid of me because I am already included into the pattern.

He felt at home in many places.

Since Rockefeller believed in meritocracy, not aristocracy, he favored educational opportunities for minorities.

It is interesting to note in this context that Standard Oil of Ohio did not hire its first permanent black employee until 1906.

most of the sort restricted to Anglo-Saxon Christian men

a condição de aluno especial, que tinha sessões particulares com os professores e assistia a aulas, mas que não pertencia, pelo menos a princípio, a nenhuma turma específica.

One of the greatest obstacles for blind children, not just in Tibet but everywhere in the world, is that they are seldom treated equally with sighted children, that they are perceived as being helpless, as somehow special and different. In families and the community beyond, very little is expected of the blind child. This reinforces in them the feeling that they are useless and incapable. Special isn't good either way.

All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They: But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way, You may end by (think of it!) looking on We As only a sort of They!

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is they.

Brother to a Prince and fellow to a beggar if he be found worthy.

Deadly Beliefs Chapter 14 |Mifflintown, Pennsylvania – February 2, 2015 "All the people like us are We, and everyone else is They.

Oppress not the cubs of the stranger, but hail them as Sister and Brother

Thus, until we have truly become a democracy, every American, white as much as black, red, or yellow, lives not in his skin but on it. If one person is called colored, let all be colored.

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.

His school had been so committed to establishing equality that the staff told a pupil he or she had done well only if they could tell every other member of the class the same thing.

Not), in my view, is all hierarchy or inequality inherently negative. Inequalities or differences in ability and experience, provided they are not reified or assigned on the basis of biological category, can usefully complement one another in relationships, and can also foster mutual learning.

Many of us persons of the tinted persuasion care about human rights and artistic freedom too.

by your example you have taught me kindness, and shown me that it expands to include all people, not only the true believers but the unbelievers and other-believers also, not only the virtuous but also those who know not virtue

In sports you often become part of something greater than yourself.