Quotes About Inclusion

Yazz wondered if sharing the same corridor in halls and being one of the few brown girls on a white campus was really enough to keep the Unfunkwithables together post-university, or even into their second year, come to think of it

If there's one thing she's learned in the past forty-eight hours, anyone can be a relative

That's the difference between golf and many other sports. You go to some other sporting events, they just leave you or give you the cold shoulder and move on.

In honoring our diversity, we discovered our oneness. By accepting our differences, we came together as one people.

Adolf Hitler had also wanted a one-people event. His way of doing it was to eliminate diversity. He created hundreds of places like Auschwitz and Birkenau where he could destroy diversity and create one people who looked the same, thought the same, lived the same. But he couldn't do it. Because the one thing we ultimately have in common is that we're all different.

When you see people in terms of race or religion, that's when the trouble starts. I don't understand why people work so hard at pointing out our differences; we should be celebrating the things we have in common.

You may invite the entire 35th Division to your wedding if you want to. I guess it's going to be yours as well as mine. We might as well have the church full while we are at it.

I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.

I don't remember what we ate or drank or discussed, I remember only the long table filled with high-spirited bohemians—intellectuals, internationals, the great unwashed—and how I yearned to be one of them.

"If only I'd known that one day my differentness would be an asset, then my early life would have been much easier."

Not with Humphrey in it, you dodo.

some of them sent curious glances her way. She imagined they didn't get many black patrons here…

Regardless of your subject matter, there are ways to engage students in critical thinking about racism which are relevant to your discipline.

We were barred last year as well," Sylvie informed Eddy. "But it's okay. We do our celebrating on August first anyway, just like the rest of the country's Colored communities.

Maria W Stewart women of all races can lecture now.

Nubia is Wonder Woman's Black twin sister, and Sam Wilson is a Black guy who used to be the Falcon but is now Captain America.

You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

My message to everyone who's been knocked down, counted out, left behind, this is your campaign. We need you. We want you and there's a place for you in our campaign.

The answer is not to turn inward, to retreat into competing factions, distrusting those who don't look like you or worship the way you do or don't get their news from the same source as you do. We must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal. We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts.

My father had an expression he repeated a thousand times growing up: Every man and woman is entitled to be treated with dignity. Everyone. That's what your new revolution was about: dignity.

Three blind mice walk into a pub. But they are unaware of their surroundings, so to derive humour from it would be exploitative.

In our hearts and in our laws, we must treat all our people with fairness and dignity, regardless of their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. . . .

For too long we've been told about 'us' and 'them'. Each and every election we see a new slate of arguments and ads telling us that 'they' are the problem, not 'us'. But there can be no 'them' in America. There's only us.

All America loses when any person is denied or forced out of a job because of sexual orientation. Being gay, the last time I thought about it, seemed to have nothing to do with the ability to read a balance book, fix a broken bone, or change a spark plug.