Quotes About Inclusion

The only black folks in town when I was growing up were me and my cousins and one other family.

Anyone who ghettoizes any form of media is a fool.

Why can't a seven-foot guy play a doctor? Why can't I be a teacher? Why can't I be a football coach? Why can't I be a cab driver? Anything. Anything else than that. I can cry. I can do those things that they think the big guys can't do. So just give us a chance.

All the Asian people respect me and watch me. But I don't want people to think of me as an Asian player. I am just a football player.

There aren't many football players other than kickers who are Latin.

In high school I was the manager of the football team, so being around boys is natural to me!

I would go on record saying that there is probably one gay or bi-person in every football team. They're there, they are 100 per cent there. I think people that are gay or from that community definitely are very worried about having to shoulder the responsibility of being the first. I think once the first comes out, there would be loads.

I don't call myself a women's footballer; I say I'm a footballer.

I know there are footballers who want to fight for justice, whether Muslim, Buddhist, Christian, any belief.

When we simply write a place off as, like, 'Well, it's just Trump country,' for the people who are there, we do them a disservice on some level. It's their country, too.

For the people that don't know it, we've had members come and go from this band since the beginning. It's always been about collaboration, and it's been about just playing music with our friends.

We need to restore our democracy to a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

I'm a black woman, so I'm obviously not going to write something where women aren't at the forefront.

Growing up as Chinese-American, as someone who experienced racism, questions of 'otherness' are always at the forefront of my mind.

It's up to the national associations and their leagues to limit the entry of foreign players.

I grew up moving around. I went to seven different schools, so I know what it's like to be that new girl and have to not only know who you are but also take that into foreign circumstances and know how to respond.

Being a foreigner is not a disease.

What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the way you dress? Or is it the forgiving of certain things? What is black enough?

Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.

I'm fortunate to be a part of the 'ANTM' family.

Racism must be fought - there are no two ways about it.

We will never know exactly how many women disguised themselves as men and fought in the Civil War. At the close of the hostilities, it was estimated that approximately 400 women had managed to enlist, but this number is almost certainly too low.

Physical access is one of the very first issues disability rights activists of the 1960s and '70s fought for.

We should be doing everything we can to make it as convenient as possible for eligible Americans to cast a ballot. People fought and died for the right to vote.