Quotes About Inclusion

There are no strangers on Christmas Eve.

The only thing that is necessary is that we take another look at the less favored child, seek out her specialness, then reflect the wonder of it back to her.

We tolerate no one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity … in fact our movement is Christian.

When someone with the authority of a teacher describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing.

I believe in a passion for inclusion.

Integrated education should be the norm - I'm passionate about that.

Yooralla, like most disability service organisations, is full of good people who are passionate about the rights of people with disabilities.

Gay rights and body acceptance are two things I feel very passionately about.

The passive acceptance of exclusionary words and deeds is not okay.

There's something really special when you take an audience and instead of just being passive and watching, you invite them to participate.

For me, humor was always my passport into new communities.

I have connected with my family more because I have made a group in which I have added all my family members from my paternal and maternal side.

We need to ensure that everyone's got a path to getting a license, so they've got identification.

There should be a pathway to citizenship - not a special pathway and not no pathway.

Ossie Ardiles got the job at Tottenham. I knew Ossie well and he brought me back as his reserve-team coach. That was my intro into coaching. Over the years I have known lots of other potential coaches who couldn't see a pathway. They couldn't see role models. There were so many BAME coaches who would apply for jobs and not even get an interview.

There are millions and millions of patriotic Muslim Americans.

Xenophobia is dangerous, but patriotism is a good thing.

It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.

I think patriotism is never racism.

Undeniable though it is that many Indian Muslims misguidedly consider Pakistan their haven, the immeasurably greater number who take intense pride in being Indian and who connect deeply with the country are hurt and angered at our patriotism being under scrutiny.

When I heard that Paul Feig was directing an all-female 'Ghostbusters,' I was prepared to do anything to be a part of this, to be a part of what sounded like an incredible project.

To the credit of the Republican Party and the conservative movement, people have been expelled or marginalized. Pat Buchanan in the '90s. Ron Paul, Rand Paul in the first decade of this century. Bill Buckley famously expelled the Birchers in 1964. It's been a movement that's tried to maintain its boundaries.

One of the more noble things the Oscars can do is pay attention to movies no one knows about. Blockbusters don't need much help.

I think the more complex your idea of who someone is or who a particular group is, the less able you are to separate 'we' and 'outside' or 'us and them.' I think that that's something that we really, really need to pay attention to.