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Quotes About Inclusion

Waar het om gaat is dat als je het hebt over identiteit, je dat niet zomaar uit mensen kunt wegredeneren. Het verdwijnt niet door de minachting van buitenstaanders, het wordt er juist door verhevigd.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
To be here was to be known. If Lee County isn't that, it's nothing.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Overjoyed, null and void, mongoloid. I still have a fellow feeling for that almond-tasting word. Oh, but it did unsettle the matrons of Bethlehem to see the poor thing boosted into a class ahead of their own children, there to become dazzlingly slick-quick at mathematics.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
One problem with democracy as it plays in our country is that the majority rules so hard; we seem bent on dividing all things into a contest of Win and Lose, and declaring that the Losers are losers. Nearly half of us are routinely asked to disappear while the slim majority works its will. But the playing field is the planet earth, and I for one have no place else to go.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Today's national movements, women's and blacks', seem more interested in being players in the white male club than challenging the white male patriarchy.
~ Barbara Neely
Sometimes it's hard being dark-skinned, just like it's sometimes hard to be any shade of brown or yellow. But it's not awful. We're just as cute and wonderful as anyone else.
~ Barbara Neely
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~ Barbara Park
People put out signals—body language, gait, clothes, facial expression, posture, attitude, speech, mannerisms—that can tell you where they're from, what they do, who they are. Most importantly, do they fit in.
~ Barry Eisler
May I join you?" she asked. Her English was lightly accented with something warm, maybe Spanish or Portuguese. "Please," I said, standing and pulling back a chair for her. "Is English all right?" "Of course," she said, looking at me closely. "You… you're American?" I nodded. "My parents are Japanese, but I grew up in America. I'm more comfortable in English.
~ Barry Eisler
diversity is an ineluctable component of every successful attempt to establish order.
~ Barry Lopez
İnsanlar? iki kategoriye ay?r?n. Yeterince iyi olanlar ve olmayanlar. Yeterince iyi olanlar? ÅŸapkan?n içine koyun. Yeterince iyi olmayanlar ise reddedilmiÅŸ olsun.
~ Barry Schwartz
What we think of as the twenty-seven books of "the" New Testament emerged out of these conflicts, and it was the side that won the debates over what to believe that decided which books were to be included in the canon of scripture.
~ Bart D. Ehrman
The next bus pole was halfway up the block. Three black women, two white women, and a Hispanic man were standing by the post, a racial mixture so balanced it looked like a casting call for Law and Order SVU.
~ Stephen King
Without involvement, there is no commitment.
~ Stephen R. Covey
I like to include you in the definition of me . - Danny Daniels
~ Steve Berry
Augie: Does everybody else know? T.C.: About my epitaph? Augie: About me being gay, you gink-head hoser-face! T.C. Not everybody. There's a night watchman at a Dunkin Donuts just outside of Detroit. He doesn't know yet.
~ Steve Kluger
You're nuts, but you're welcome here.
~ Steve Martin
The world today is hungry Not only for bread But hungry for love; Hungry to be wanted, Hungry to be loved.
~ Mother Teresa
I am a stranger, learning to love the strangers around me
~ June Jordan
Open your heart and take us in, Love-love and me.
~ William Ernest Henley
For Christians, the problem is not how to reconcile homosexuality with scriptural passages that condemn it, but how to reconcile the rejection and punishment of homosexuals with the love of Christ.
~ William Sloane Coffin
The religious fanatic drew a small circle and left me, the infidel, outside it. However, I, with the help of love, won over him - I drew a large circle and included him.
~ Ameen Rihani
If you love music, you have to be the one that opens doors. You have to be the one that build bridge on which everybody can be free to walk on. I know that that's my mission.
~ Angelique Kidjo
The word hospitality in the New Testament comes from two Greek words. The first word means love and the second word means strangers. Its a word that means love of strangers.
~ Nancy Leigh DeMoss