Quotes About Inclusion

I was never comfortable anywhere... but then...I realized... the world is a big place. So there must be a place for me somewhere.

The spirit of our age is one in which the prejudices of the past are put behind us, where our diversity is our strength.

You need other people, Madeline. There's a great freedom in knowing that. And accepting that. And letting people in. Letting them help you.

My father suggested in an early draft that the hipster "became a criminal because he was not allowed to become a citizen.

What I'm calling for is a radically different way of thinking about our world. Instead of running from it, we need to rush into it. And instead of just hanging around the fringes of our culture, we need to be right smack dab in the middle of it.

But in the economy of grace, all of us are the worker who has only worked one hour, with

I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours

Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.

Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind.

For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together.

For the next hour, Joanne clung to Spence's back, comfortable now with the enforced physical intimacy, loving the wind on her face, the swoops and dizzying corners , the way other bikers saluted as if she and Spence belonged, with them, to a select club.

We're going to have more kids playing, and we're going to have a better chance of finding those players Minor sports in a community is for fun and recreation. For everyone.

This was a fight not just for the right of access but for the right of recreation, of leisure, no matter what your skin color. Many activists saw pools and beaches as the ultimate symbols of that freedom. In the mingling of bodies, in the act of sharing the same water with others, you can read volumes.

The original prohibitions at public pools were put in place in fear of this very thing: people of different races, genders, and backgrounds mixing together.

If you're not at the table you're on the menu?

To be one, to be united is a great thing but respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

There is no them. There's only us.

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.

In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not long keep the world from what it wants.

Every persecuted individual and race should get much consolation out of the great human law, which is universal and eternal, that merit, no matter under what skin found, is, in the long run, recognized and rewarded.

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

It will see that it pays better, from every standpoint, to have healthy, vigorous life than to have that political stagnation which always results when one-half of the population has no share and no interest in the Government.

My experience is that there is something in human nature which always makes an individual recognize and reward merit, no matter under what colour of skin merit is found. I have found, too, that it is the visible, the tangible, that goes a long ways in softening prejudices. The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.