Quotes About Inclusion

When you are the majority ethnicity, nothing you do is ethnic. It's just the way it's done. When you are a minority, everything you do has color.

Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection

Hoods, hobos, hustlers, homosexuals. Hunting.

So she made no secret about being gay?" "Why should she?" the little old lady asked. "Nobody would care but a bunch of stuffy old men.

In general there should be gay characters in YA because a) surprise, there are gay folks everywhere and b) in my opinion as a father, there's not a damn thing wrong with my child encountering gay folks in her literature, because see point a).

It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.

It is the nature of human life to feed our ever-present security needs by displaying fear in the presence of anyone who is "different.

The words of Peter then became the new mantra for the Christian movement: "Truly I perceive that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears God and does what is right is acceptable to him" (10:34–35).

Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand guys with M16s going, "Who'd you call a faggot?"

The social state is at once so natural, so necessary, and so habitual to man, that… he never conceives himself otherwise than as a member of a body.

only through diversity of opinion is there, in the existing state of human intellect, a chance of fair play to all sides of the truth.

Outra coisa que sei é que, cedo ou tarde, as pessoas têm de fazer parte de um lugar — parte de sua paisagem, das ruas, das águas e das pessoas — senão terão uma vida muito, muito infeliz, a vida de um eterno exilado.

A horse is a horse,it ain´t make a difference what color it is

The hyphenated American is ridiculous. But that's what we have to put up with. I think that any person that's in the United States is better off here than they would be where they came from.

Everybody gets to play.

Everybody in this room knows the basic rule: if you don't have a seat at the table, you are probably on the menu.

I had a choice. I could be an insider or I could be an outsider. Outsiders can say whatever they want. But people on the inside don't listen to them. Insiders, however, get lots of access and a chance to push their ideas. People—powerful people—listen to what they have to say. But insiders also understand one unbreakable rule: They don't criticize other insiders. I

I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love, I don't care if it's called marriage. I don't care if it's called, you know, domestic partnership. I don't care what it's called.

Poverty need not shut us out from showing hospitality.

I'm one of them gays too.

In combating prejudice, then, the issue is not simply how we might teach the majority to be less judgmental, but also how we might all learn to value a "disabled" or "deviant" person's more creative perceptions.

Who were these people, these specially selected tenants? They were mothers and fathers and children. A dressmaker, a secretary, an inventor, a doctor, a judge. And, oh yes, one was a bookie, one was a burglar, one was a bomber, and one was a mistake.

Can you stand on your legs?" Sydelle Pulaski asked. "Can you walk at all?" People never asked Chris those questions; they whispered them to his parents behind his back. "N-n-no. Why?" "What better disguise for a thief or a murderer than a wheelchair, the perfect alibi." Chris enjoyed being taken for the criminal type. Now they really were friends.

Welcome to the Family." - Mrs.Sterling