Quotes About Inclusion

In seventh grade, I met my best friend Wendi, who is a trans woman.

When I was in the second grade, I learned that I looked different from my classmates.

I'm kind of iffy on the Latin Grammys because I think we fought so hard, for example, to get the American side of the Grammys to open categories for us... But I support the Latin Grammys in the sense I'm glad that we have them.

My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.

The right to love is granted to anyone.

We humans gravitate to people who share our culture because it's easier... the problem is that self-segregation is not just bad, it is dangerous.

I tend to gravitate toward gender- and race-related stories.

When you're biracial, people sort of make you gray - you're not black, you're not white, you're sort of gray; you're 'other.' And I'm fortunate to have parents that were strong enough to say, 'You're not 'other.' You're special.'

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.

I'm a great believer in giving people a chance.

As the Senator from the most populous and most diverse state in the nation - and as the first Latino Senator from California - let me just say: what a great country this is.

But the reason America is a great country, the reason is because our compassion is in our laws. And when we live by those laws and we treat everybody equally under the law, that's when people feel good about being Americans.

There's still a great deal of bias about homosexuality.

You really want a company that's full of people from all these different backgrounds and then allow them to be creative as possible, come together, and come up with great ideas.

Idras Elba was from Forest Gate - where I am from - there are a lot of great people around if they can be given a chance or have the belief.

The great thing about Little League was that anyone could play it.

You can't stop demographics. And show me a fence that ever worked. It didn't work at Hadrian's Wall. The Great Wall of China didn't work. The Berlin Wall.

The way forward is always found through greater respect for the equal rights of all.

The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation.

American greatness can be further unlocked if opportunity is expanded to all people within its borders.

We will do whatever we could do to keep Greece inside the euro and inside Europe.

Everyone that've been here, working, living as Americans - just give them a green card.

Everybody else was quoting 2Pac, and I was running around with Green Day in my Walkman. Racially speaking, I wasn't cool or appropriate for any group.

In Blackburn where I grew up, there was no other black children.