Quotes About Inclusion

The loss of political diversity among the faculty has negative consequences for students

found a way to forge a sense of "we" that extended beyond kinship. We trust and cooperate more readily with people who look and sound like us.69 We expect them to share our values and norms.

Harvard, entry to the clubs was by invitation only

Mrs Hacker was the only woman present. They'd made her a sort of honorary man for the evening.

Have you ever considered that you are a valuable human being, not despite your differences but because of them?

My dad is the kind of dad who tried to eliminate himself. My dad's story is all too common, because when we don't fit in, many of us believe we shouldn't exist, and we try, as my dad did, as I did, to disappear.

What I can tell you is what I learned from Jeff, and that is this: If you watch the strange, the other, the bizarre long enough, if you really see these people, you will find familiar pieces of yourself in their experiences. Empathy may be our only hope. I found in Jeff not just something familiar but also a better way to live.

On the surface, these stories of correction might seem different, but really, at their core, they are all the same. To be abnormal is to be delegitimized as a full human being, and to be made normal through remediation and intervention hurts. When a human being is pathologized, they become less than human, and then we humans do terrible things.

People with brain and body differences have the lowest graduation rates, highest incarceration rates, and highest unemployment out of any minority group.

As documented in two important books, Neurodiversity by Thomas Armstrong and The Power of Different by

We are all only temporarily able bodies and minds. Statistically, what have been labeled mental and physical "abnormalities" or disabilities are essential to the human condition, are in fact the human condition.

Creation is filled with soul-sick folks, colored and white, never knowing where they belong. They tangle everybody else up in their grief.

Minorities are always better off in a culture which protects dissent than in a culture which protects us from dissent.

stamping out prejudice inevitably means making everybody share the same prejudice

Our inclination to act well towards others, whatever its source, tends to be confined to those with whom we share a common identity. The Greeks, the world's first philosophers and scientists, regarded anyone who was not Greek as a barbarian – a word derived from the sound of a sheep bleating. Our radius of moral concern has limits. The group may be small or large, but in practice as opposed to theory, we tend to see those not like us as less than fully human.

What Jacob learned – and what we learn, hearing his story – is that love is not enough. We must also heed those who feel unloved.

Religion' comes from the Latin ligare, meaning to join or bind. Religion binds people within the group – Christian to Christian, Muslim to Muslim, Jew to Jew.

Thus Best Society is not a fellowship of the wealthy, nor does it seek to exclude those who are not of exalted birth; but it is an association of gentle-folk, of which good form in speech, charm of manner, knowledge of the social amenities, and instinctive consideration for the feelings of others, are the credentials by which society the world over recognizes its chosen members.

Give me your tired, your poor,Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me:I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. - Engrved on Statue of Liberty

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

Until we are all free, we are none of us free.

Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she with silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.