Quotes About Inclusion

In the multicultural classroom, every culture appears to be taught except Britain's indigenous one. Concern not to offend minority sensibilities has reached the risible point where piggy banks have been banished from British banks in case Muslims might be offended.18

He loves New York, he says. 'It's like Oberlin--it's where people who don't belong anywhere belong.

New York est la ville où l'on se sent chez soi quand on est de nulle part.

wonder how a country so divided can stand?" "We will only stand if we learn to accept and even embrace each other's differences rather than allow them to divide us. It is a childish fantasy to expect everyone to agree all the time, but how much better to live in a country where one is free to think differently from one's neighbors, and even one's government, without risking life and limb.

In Auradon, people stared at them because they came from somewhere else, and now on the Isle of the Lost, everyone stared at them because they'd left. In a way, it was just the same. Now they were outsiders in both places.

It didn't matter that Amelia was fluent in Mandarin and could code as well as a first-year at Peking University, she was still treated like her mother: as an interloper.

Even now, it still bewildered Chelsea the way Virginia and her circle of picture-perfect friends had made that amazing transition—it seemed like overnight—abandoning bikes and Barbies for boys and fashion. But Chelsea hadn't been invited to cross that bridge with them.

Pretend long enough that you belong, and eventually even you will believe it. - Gallen

They have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody!

Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that shape who we are and how we live in the world.

When we are taught that safety lies always with sameness, then difference, of any kind, will appear as a threat

You can't talk about women's rights until we include all women. When you deny one woman of her rights, you deny all.

Estar al margen es ser parte del todo, pero fuera del cuerpo principal.

positive recognition and acceptance of difference is a necessary starting point as we work to eradicate white supremacy.

We need to start evaluating people based on their abilities and not on their sex or other congenital characteristics.

used to tell Ben and Curtis, "I think God made different nationalities to see what our reaction was going to be toward each other. Maybe God made it for a special measurement just to see if we could really love someone who is different from us." One

Dinner? You want to eat with me?' 'That's right, a Jew and queer, eh? The SS would love that, wouldn't they? Perhaps we can plot an assassination attempt.

They were the Saturday Club, a secret society of which only the four of them were aware and which none other could join.

Mehrasa, a dark-skinned girl who came from the lands beyond the Mediterranean. She had married Father Cuthbert and now lived in Bebbanburg

If a man is not party to a fight then he cannot be party to the settlement afterward.

I care for life, for humanity; and you are a part of it that has come my way and been built into my house. What more can you or anyone ask?

The habit of considering a man's religious, moral and political opinions before appointing him to a post or giving him a job is the modern form of persecution.

A government is usually called 'democratic' if a fairly large percentage of the population has a share of political power. The most extreme Greek democracies excluded women and slaves, and America considered itself a democracy before women had the vote. Clearly an oligarchy approaches more nearly to a democracy as the percentage possessed of political power increases. The characteristic features of oligarchy only appear when this percentage is rather small.

Jesus is the only outsider who truly knows the insider our skin keeps veiled.