Quotes About Inclusion

You do not have to be me in order for us to fight alongside each other. I do not have to be you to recognize that our wars are the same. What we must to is commit ourselves to some future that can include each other and to work toward that future with the particular strengths of our individual identities. And in order to do this, we must allow each other our differences at the same time as we recognize our sameness.

If you're gay and live in New York and don't go to gym, eventually they come for you.

The year I snuck an interracial lesbian couple into the background of an American Airlines commercial, I was feeling particularly flush.

In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued. (From a speech read on video on August 31, 1995 before the NGO Forum on Women, Beijing, China)

In spite of the open, laughing face that the Burmese presented to the world, the ingrained, if inarticulate, conviction of their own nationhood prevented them from truly admitting those they saw as 'foreign' into their inner sancturns.

A negro in the White House? Oh no! Some people thought we'd never set foot in the White House again since we built it!!!!

God not only accepts us, he embraces us.

If you care about somebody, you should want them to be happy. Even if you wind up being left out.

I remembered this one time that I never told anybody about. The time we were walking. Just the three of us. I was in the middle. I don't remember where we were walking to or where we were walking from. I just remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere

You ever think Charlie, that our group is the same as any other group like a football team? And the only real difference between us is what we wear and why we wear it?

You know what they say, if you make atleast one friend on your first day you're doing okay

Then, Patrick pointed at me, and said something to Bob. He's something, isn't he? Bob nodded his head. Patrick then said something I don't think I'll ever forget. Hes a wallflower. And Bob really nodded his head. And the whole room nodded their head. And I started to feel nervous in the Bob way, but Patrick didn't let me get too nervous. He sat down next to me. You see things. You keep quiet about them. And you understand.

I am trying to participate

The nerds and the squids were one.

I don't remember where we were walking to or where we were walking from. I don't even remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere.

After I said that, we all got quiet and sad. In the silence, I remembered this one time that I never told anybody about. The time we were walking. Just the three of us. And I was in the middle. I don't remember where we were walking to or where we were walking from. I don't even remember the season. I just remember walking between them and feeling for the first time that I belonged somewhere

Vivir al margen ofrece una perspectiva única, pero siempre llega el momento de entrar en escena y ver el mundo desde adentro.

Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.

It is unpleasant and disturbing to be rejected. It is deeply satisfying to be accepted.

No involvement, no commitment.

in the words of the superintendent of public instruction in Indiana, the policy was "to make of all the varieties of population among us, differing as they do in origin, language, habits of thought, modes of action, and social custom, one people, with one common interest."11 The accepted

If you're not a beautiful monster, then you're a villager

Gay and Lesbian Canadians are entitled to equal treatment under law and are part of Canada's diversity.

You can't afford to be disabled in spirit as well as physically. People won't have time for you.