Quotes About Inclusion

That is what it's about—being a child of God. Ethnicity (no Jew or Greek), class (no slave or free), and gender (no male and female) count neither for you nor against you. We are all children of God.

The creed was originally about the fact that race, class, and gender are typically used to divide the human race into us and them to the advantage of us. It aimed to declare that there is no us, no them. We are all children of God. It was about solidarity, not cultural obliteration.

In baptism they were committed to giving up old identities falsely acquired on the basis of baseless assumptions—Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female—and declared themselves to be children of God.

A boy who once wiped his ass with poison ivy probably doesn't belong in a smart people's club.

And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside.

There was power in that music, a power which seemed to most rightfully belong to all the skinny kids, fat kids, ugly kids, shy kids—the world's losers, in short.

sure, we need the gypsies. we always have. because if you don't have someone to run out of town once in a while, how are you going to know you yourself belong there?

If you look like you belong in a place, most people think you do.

When we learn to accept, appreciate and love others for being different is when we will find peace, joy and happiness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

Believing that you are unworthy of love and belonging or that who you are authentically is a sin or is wrong, is deadly.

Jesus never says to the poor: 'come find the church', but he says to those of us in the church: 'go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned.

Love me. Love my umbrella.

Who you are and who you love should never be a fireable offense

Spice a dish with love and it pleases every palate.

As our world becomes smaller, through a growing common culture, the true test of community will be our tolerance for our most profound differences and love for the most challenging among us.

I think humans are driven by othering people, by defining themselves by who they are not and who is different from them. Human beings are in love with othering.

Hate has no place in the house of God. No one should be excluded from our love, our compassion or our concern because of race or gender, faith or ethnicity - or because of their sexual orientation.

As a candidate, I intend to let everyone hear my message, including the many who can express their love of country in a different language.

It's obvious that the rest of the world loves high African culture - African culture, period.

Extend the boundaries of the glowing kingdom of your love, gradually including your family, your neighbors, your community, your country, all countries -- all living sentient creatures.

Brotherly love is still the distinguishing badge of every true Christian.