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Quotes About Inclusion

Boards without women - blacklist those suckers. It's 2011. They've had the time - it's significant that they don't have women.
~ Anne M. Mulcahy
Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.
~ Carlisle Floyd
It's been a long time since universal suffrage, and I'm sick of the old white men running the show.
~ Cate Blanchett
Everywhere you look in L.A., you're reminded of what you're a part of - or what you're not a part of. And everyone you meet is talking about the same thing all the time.
~ Chris Hemsworth
In this society these days, women are widely accepted in all kinds of cross-gender areas. So yeah, it's time!
~ Danica Patrick
I really wanted to succeed. I wanted to be accepted. I read every magic book that I possibly could, studied every move, and by the time I was 12, they really accepted me, they embraced me.
~ David Copperfield
If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it.
~ Derek Bok
In that Freak Show environment, I got to spend time with so many of the actors who were part of that world. I just had the best time ever.
~ Matt Bomer
Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.
~ Salma Hayek
Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks.
~ Samuel P. Huntington
As the only girl growing up for a long time with only boys, as you pointed out, it seems like I was always surrounded by guys. There was this sense in which my female body was a problem.
~ Shirley Geok-lin Lim
I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tell me there was anything I couldn't do.
~ Whoopi Goldberg
Our party for the longest time has relied on the votes of white guys. I think that all of these candidates are going to improve our party, our policies, and our nation.
~ Ken Mehlman
I just don't feel like part of the fraternity of actors. I do geek out. All the time.
~ Kurt Fuller
I grew up watching foreign programs - American, English, Mexican, and very little Kenyan. 'The Color Purple' was the first time I saw people who looked like me.
~ Lupita Nyong'o
Most of the time when "universal" is used, it's just a euphamism for "white"; white themes, white significance, white culture.
~ Merle Woo
We can't be French and Muslim at the same time. And that's exactly what ISIS wants that population to think.
~ Michael Leiter
The only time I'm the only woman in the room is when I go to the leadership meeting.
~ Nancy Pelosi
It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve
~ Mark Twain
Tom was like the rest of the respectable boys, in that he envied Huckleberry his gaudy outcast condition, and was under strict orders not to play with him. So he played with him every time he got a chance. Huckleberry
~ Mark Twain
Clearly, said Arthur,you're an idiot- but you're our kind of idiot. Come on.
~ Markus Zusak
She couldn't ever see how broken he was, while the rest of us stood and watched them. She was in jeans, bare feet and T-shirt, and maybe that's what finished us off. She looked just like a Dunbar boy. With that haircut she was one of us.
~ Markus Zusak
You're an idiot-but you're our kind of idiot. Come on.
~ Markus Zusak
Cómo puede una nación en su conjunto constituir un "ambiente facilitador" que calme el miedo y proteja la reciprocidad democrática?
~ Martha C. Nussbaum