Quotes About Inclusion

Jazz is America's own. It is played and listened to by all peoples - in harmony together. Pigmentation differences have no place... as in genuine democracy, only performance counts.

No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.

There's no national glue holding us together because somebody put too much pluribus in the unum.

We are a diverse country, but we are one country. And we are at our best when we come together as Americans, not despite our differences, but in celebration of them.

It was a pang of envy, perhaps. They were family. He was the outsider. Always the outsider.

You cannot easily fit women into a structure that is already coded as male; you have to change the structure.

We have to be more reflective about what power is, what it is for, and how it is measured. To put it another way, if women are not perceived to be fully within the structures of power, surely it is power that we need to redefine rather than women?

if women are not perceived to be fully within the structures of power, surely it is power that we need to redefine rather than women?

Whenever we said 'they,' Mama told us to name two." Claudette divides the lump of cheese, handing half to Albert. "Mama said if you can't name two actual real people, then you're just being prejudiced. So name two peasants who hate us.

On Earth, her son would have been a tragedy, but here in the forest, protected by the watchful gaze of a hundred fathers, all the children were safe, damaged or whole, quick or halt. No one was discarded as too broken or too odd. Imperfection was permitted in Trucha Sai, the only place on Rakhat where this was so. The Runa asked nothing of Isaac. They did not judge him and find him wanting.

I believed in the world. Oh, I wanted to be easy in the peopled kingdoms, to take my place there, but there was none that I could find shaped like me.

one day things are going to change. Everybody will sit together on trains and buses and planes." "And one day an African American man will run for president of the United States," said Annie. "And millions of people—of all colors—will vote for him." "And he'll win!" said Jack.

No one is excluded from the astronaut corps based on penis size.

I persuaded myself that when they should become acquainted with my admiration of their virtues, they would compassionate me, and overlook my personal deformity. Could they turn from their door one, however monstrous, who solicited their compassion and friendship?

Do not despair. To be friendless is indeed to be unfortunate, but the hearts of men, when unprejudiced by any obvious self-interest, are full of brotherly love and charity (p.139).

persuaded myself that when they should become acquainted with my admiration of their virtues, they would compassionate me, and overlook my personal deformity. Could they turn from their door one, however monstrous, who solicited their compassion and friendship?

I could not consent to the death of any human being; but certainly I should have thought such a creature unfit to remain in the society of men.

Everywhere i see bliss, from which i alone am irrevocably excluded.

I must confess the word race is now obsolete and we should quickly replace it by another.

It is unclear what I bring to the table here, but I thank you for having me. -Acknowledgements

I wish I'd remembered not to use it around other people, because it was kind of our word.

So the advocacy of "ethnicity," means racism plus tradition i.e., racism plus conformity i.e., racism plus staleness.

What is my joy if all hands, even the unclean, can reach into it?

This era is overwhelmed by violence both in rhetoric and reality, communicating not through inclusion but elimination.