Quotes About Inclusion

People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.

Just because we are in wheelchairs doesn't mean we can't play a fast-paced, full-contact sport.

People here don't identify themselves by their sports team.

The act of sport remains a human act, unrelated to gender.

Never had I had so many friends and so much fun as I did in the projects.

I played team sports, but I never felt like I fitted in that well, so this allowed me to be part of a community but to do it in my own way.

I think racing is a sport that either your in or your out. Its either you are with the pack or you are off the pack.

A lot of people like to think that golf is a lazy man's sport. Or it's a rich man's sport, or it's a sport that they can't be involved in.

I realize im black, but id like to be viewed as a person, and that is everybodys wish.

In Gym, the kids on my team learned not to pass me the ball and to step quickly in front of me if the other team tried to take advantage of my weakness. I happily stayed out of their way.

In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

Differences can be a strength.

The starship Enterprise was a metaphor starship Earth, and the vision was that the strength of this starship lay in its diversity.

In special education, there's too much emphasis placed on the deficit and not enough on the strength.

For nearly two hundred years, our nation has derived its strength from the diversity of its people and of their beliefs. That strength has been greatly enhanced by [the Islamic] religious heritage.

For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.

Differences can be strength rather than a handicap.

In Boston, our strength is really our diversity.

A person who is severely impaired never knows his hidden sources of strength until he is treated like a normal human being and encouraged to shape his own life.

Our differences are our strength as a species and as a world community.

I wanted to talk to very young kids about self-image and about being different and how that can be your strength, especially from the immigrant perspective.

America's strength is that it is capable of accepting people into its communities.

Communities need to feel that they can accommodate people. Rather than feeling that it's not possible to integrate and that the stress and strain on housing and public services is too great.

You'll find success in life when you stop trying to include God in your plans and Instead ask God to include you in His.