Quotes About Inclusion

Canada is our country. It belongs to us and we belong to it. Let us join together, in our time, and make history once again.

It's time to take the 'Men Only' sign off the White House door.

It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength.

The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.

Any time there's racism somewhere in sports, we should get it out of there because sports is a place where everything's supposed to be fair.

Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship.

For the majority of the time, I may as well have been just a really tan white kid. You know, I may as well have just been, like, a fat kid.

The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.

In my world there's no room for hate or discrimination in the White House. I will be an outspoken voice against that every time.

I'm not the kind of player to see out my time and sit with my bum on the bench too much. I want to be involved. That's my character.

You know Anne,' he said quietly, 'when I am with a Hmong or a French or an American person, I am always the one who laughs last at a joke. I am the chameleon animal. You can place me anyplace, and I will survive, but I will not belong. I must tell you that I do not really belong anywhere.

He simply could not imagine a time when being a Jew, or even a half Jew, was not a disability.

It's all right for me to have boys as friends.

Surely the time will come when we are people again, and not just Jews.

We can never be just Dutch, or just English, or whatever, we will always be Jews as well.

Little by little, in telling Sam all these details, I got to see the bigger point of baseball, that it can give us back ourselves. We're a crowd animal, a highly gregarious, communicative species, but the culture and the age and all the fear that fills our days have put almost everyone into little boxes, each of us all alone. But baseball, if we love it, gives us back our place in the crowd. It restores us.

But baseball, if we love it, gives us back our place in the crowd. It restores us.

We have to make ourselves available to one another, or we can't experience goodness. It's not so much us seeking God, tracking Her down with a butterfly net; it's agreeing to be found. The Old Girl reaches out to everyone and wants to include us in this beautiful, weird, sometimes anguished life. All people: go figure.

All I ever wanted was to belong, to wear that hat of belonging.

Look at us," he said. His speech was difficult to understand, thick and slow as a warped record. His two friends in the picture had Down's syndrome. All three of them looked extremely pleased with themselves. I admired the picture and then handed it back to him. He stopped, so I stopped, too. He pointed to his own image. "That," he said, "is one cool man.

All I ever wanted was to belong, to wear the hat of belonging.

Teaching] was hard. Some of the kids were needy and vulnerable and depressed, with faces of dubious, aged concern, rumpled foreheads, downcast or shuttered eyes. Some were wild. We did not exclude anyone, because Jesus didn't. On bad days, I could not imagine what he had been thinking. I could always feel Jesus in the room, encouraging us in every way, although maybe he would have stopped short of sharing Doritos with us.

Polite inclusion is the gateway drug to mercy.

Isn't this planet big enough for differences?