Quotes About Inclusion

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.

It wasn't that they were bad people. It just suddenly seemed to me that there wasn't much room in their world for anyone who wasn't just like them.

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Without a country, you are the basket of humanity.

But with that burst of the fairness that he can never repress, he admits that conversion is unlikely as long as Christians exclude Jews from the community: "There must be first conversing with them before there can be converting them.

If Catholicism be the principle of inclusion, Protestantism is the principle of exclusion. The first is the system of conciliation of all verities, the second is the opposition of all verities to their mutual exclusion.

It's all about fear. That same fear that gays have about coming out is the fear that women have about being feminists or being pro-women. It's the same fear that Jews have about being too Jewish. And it's the same exact fear that black writers have about being too ethnic.

You don't need to be "straight" to fight and die for your country; you just need to shoot straight.

You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.

A bedrock principle of religious freedom is that freedom is achieved only if it is achieved for all.

I've spent the last thirty years of my life telling the parents of gay and lesbian kids that as Christians, the only thing any of us can do is to accept and love our kids unconditionally, just as they are. I am certainly not about to do anything else when it comes to our own son.

Oreo hug, where two people hug a person in between them.

We march on toward the realization of the American Dream. We are not diverted by those who would deny opportunity based on what we look like or where we came from or who would deny equality based on who we love.

At the end of the day, we need to realize that segregation is not the human condition at its best. Which isn't to say we need to all be the same. It simply means we need to embrace each other's differences to help tell our stories together.

We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.

Without women's equal access to positions of decision-making power and a clear process to get there, gender equality, global security, and peace will never be realized.

I never thought acting would be a realistic job for me. Because, quite frankly, I didn't see people who looked like me doing it. I quickly realized, that's all the more reason to try.

I realized I was a girl playing with all of these great musicians, but race and gender never did cross my mind, really, until other people started talking about them. They weren't really an issue for me.

The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans.

For example, the first time McDonald's put a deaf person in a commercial they saw a jump in sales. I think that happens with other kinds of disabilities and products and that is something that is being realized more and more.

People are realizing that color has no bearing on what's known as brotherhood.

Pop culture does not frequently depict women of color realizing their happy ending.

I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.