Quotes About Inclusion

You know, the diversity that America has is so special. It's starting to really become a cool thing for young people.

You stand outside the circle and wonder why you feel left out, unaware that you need your own permission to join the others-not theirs.

The spaces we refer to as public are assumed to be male, and for centuries men have excluded women from the public where all the key decisions relating to power are deliberated and implemented.

Patriarchy has effectively used exclusion as a central tenet of its ideological claims to hegemony in all our societies, where one is looking at notions of identity, of rights and privilege, of access and inclusion into institutions and sites of power.

In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race have not all participated in one culture. In scientific language, culture is not a function of race.

Sie nahmen mich wahr und ließen mich sein, wie ich war. (Bei denen bleib ich.)

Music creates complicity, and then you feel less isolated.

To prevent jealousy: Distribute the praise justly.

Glitter family is my long-time favourite term for this: the people who those of us pushed to society's margins (and beyond) make our cohort. Glitter is known to be shiny and unruly, easy to get and hard to be rid of. I love the drag connotations and the femme visibility of it, as well as its unmistakably queer sensibility—look only as far as glitter-bombing for proof that nothing is as thoroughly and satisfyingly queer as glitter.

It's okay. We aren't in the same class. Just don't forget that some of us watch the sunset too.

Our prayer is God's opportunity to get into the world that would shut Him out.

I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.

As your likes and dislikes become stronger, as your identifications become stronger with one thing or another, all that you are doing is excluding existence. If I say, "I like this very much," in a big way I am excluding the rest of existence at that moment. So the stronger it becomes, the deeper the exclusion becomes. The very process of liberation is to include, not to exclude. In exclusion, you become trapped. In inclusion, you become liberated.

Either you are a citizen or you are not a citizen at all. If you are citizen, you are free; if you're not a citizen you are a slave.

I'm not a diner until you let me dine

Human beings are a part of the animal kingdom, not apart from it. The separation of us and them creates a false picture and is responsible for much suffering. It is part of the in-group/out-group mentality that leads to human oppression of the weak by the strong as in ethic, religious, political, and social conflicts.

Walking into the crowd was like sinking into a stew - you became an ingredient, you took on a certain flavour.

There has to be an "us" because now there is "them".

Maybe they'll just take her someplace else, like an island, with the other people on it who are like her. People who don't fit in, but not criminal elements. Surely that's what they'll do.

My very presence as an Asian American woman talking about race and sexuality is a political statement.

She liked Christian names, she liked those who used them as a sign of easy inclusion and intimacy, but to her the use of a name remained a proclamation, an action, an event. She was not accustomed to names.

An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift

At most project meetings, everyone has a seat at the table except the poor victims who will have to operate the technology.

We need all hands on deck, and that means clearing hurdles for women and girls as they navigate careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.