Quotes About Inclusion

This club is for members only. But once you join, membership lasts for an eternity.

One woman, a Harvard-educated lawyer, learned to carry a Bally bag when going to certain exclusive shops. Like a sorceress warding off evil with a wand, she would hold the bag in front of her to rebuff racial assumptions, in the hope that the clerk would take it as proof that she could be trusted to enter.

Accept and accommodate everything and everyone. In other words, never isolate or reject anyone in your Life. For, a good person gives you Happiness. A bad person gives you Experience. Whereas, the so called worst person teaches you a Lesson. Moreover, your favourite person gives you memories that live on. - Emeasoba George

Everyone counts, including you (personally). Oh! yes, anyone who says that you don't count is either a hater, a racist or a bigot (period). ~Emeasoba George

Never ever hold anyone or someone in contempt i.e. never ever despise or disregard anyone, regardless of his or her colour, sex, race, religion, tribe or language. Because, the very person who you're despising or disregarding presently is most likely to rule over you someday e.g. Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and Goodluck Jonathan among others.

Never ever hold anyone/someone in contempt i.e. never ever despise/disregard anyone regardless of his or her colour/race/religion/tribe/language. Because, the very person who you're despising/disregarding presently is most likely to rule over you someday e.g. Barack Obama/Michelle Obama/Goodluck Ebele Jonathan among others.

No human is beneath contempt. In other words, no human is utterly worthless or despicable. Yes! anyone who thinks or says otherwise is either a hater, bigot or racist. You can say I said so. -Emeasoba George

What it really means to love unconditionally is just to love all and sundry without any segregation, limitation, restriction, intimidation or stigmatization. -Emeasoba George

No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider.

No one in America should ever be afraid to walk down the street holding hands with the person they love.

I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.

Our troops come from every corner of this country—they are black, white, Latino, Asian, and Native American. They are Christian and Hindu, Jewish and Muslim. And, yes, we know that some of them are gay. Starting this year, no American will be forbidden from serving the country they love because of who they love.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.

You shall love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt." Those most likely to befriend strangers, in other words, are those who have been strangers themselves. The best way to grow empathy for those who are lost is to know what it means to be lost yourself.

When visitors come to a worship service in my own religious tradition, a great deal depends on how warmly they are welcomed and whether they feel included or excluded by what they hear during the short time they are with us. We may have exactly one shot at communicating who we are to people who know nothing about us - or who think they already know a lot about us - but who, in either case, will remember us at the embodiment of our entire tradition, the prime exemplars of our faith.

I had refused the body and blood of Christ because it was painful to the person beside me. I had chosen to abstain with him rather than to participate without him. Though I knew full well that he did not expect that of me - that it was possible for a full-fledged Christian and a full-fledged Jew to stand together in their difference - at that moment I did not want to celebrate any Communion that did not include him.

I had lived so long in the mainstream that I never even though about how I sounded from the margins

However you define the problematic present-day stranger—the religious stranger, the cultural stranger, the transgendered stranger, the homeless stranger—scripture's wildly impractical solution is to love the stranger as the self.

"We, the people." It is a very eloquent beginning. But when that document was completed on the seventeenth of September in 1787 I was not included in that "We, the people." I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation and court decision, I have finally been included in "We, the people."

charitable tolerance. You would find yourself an outcast whom people might pity, but whom, if they were

I want my new friends and my old friends to get together,' she said, 'so we're going to have a shoe dance. All the guys take off one shoe and put it in the middle of the floor. All the girls pick a shoe, find its mate, and dance with the fellow who's wearing it.' Without a second's hesitation, I glanced over at Billy. He was standing next to Sally at the victrola. His saddle shoes were black and white, not brown and white, and very dirty. I memorized the dirt.

I love crowds. They make me feel part of something big and important.

The real world does, after all, include ourselves [Jill Paton Walsh, "Templates"].

One thing is clear to me: we, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.