Quotes About Inclusion

Quererse uno mismo, despreciando o ignorando a los demás, es presunción y exclusión; querer a los demás, despreciándose uno mismo, es carencia de amor propio.

Quererse a uno mismo, despreciando o ignorando a los demás, es presunción y exclusión; querer a los demás, despreciándose uno mismo, es carencia de amor propio.

Everybody heard the gospel in their own language: you have a place.

There are only about 400 people in fashionable New York Society. If you go outside that number you strike people who are either not at ease in a ballroom or else make other people not at ease.

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. Everyone feels that he or she makes a difference to the success of the organization. When that happens people feel centered and that gives their work meaning.

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery.

They were kids. But the ones who could play would often mix with an older crowd. There was no distinction between varsity and junior varsity—strict divisions that applied elsewhere often didn't in the world of local bands.

No person of color has ever held a top executive post in his organization and even his suited security army inside the tower is virtually all white. Race

Those who have different experiences and cultures will have ideas that can benefit us if we choose to be exposed to them.

I mention Jackie mostly because I want to be assured that I inhabit the same universe as other people; that I am not alone on a distant shore. Jackie glues me to this world—most effectively when I can find a way to mention her name or her attributes, when I can find a pretext, however frail, to introduce her into a conversation, even at the risk of non sequitur, bathos, or incoherence.

The Constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens.

No man has a right in America to treat any other man tolerantly, for tolerance is the assumption of superiority.

To suppress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress...Now more than ever, we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

Timothy said there were just those people who, when it all came down to that final moment and you were leaving Earth on a spaceship that could fit only so many people, got On the Ship with you. They were familiar. Part of you. Necessary, for various reasons. (152)

Tolerated individuals will always be those who deviate from the norm, never those who uphold it, but they will also be further articulated as (deviant) individuals through the very discourse of tolerance.

My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion.

being needed was not the same as being accepted.

that being needed was not the same as being accepted.

Precisamos, amigos e amigas, nos libertar desse conceito que desvaloriza a nossa diversidade. Precisamos entender que não existem índios no Brasil. Precisamos aprender como chamá-los, festejá-los, conhecê-los e, principalmente, valorizá-los. Precisamos encontrar um lugar para eles dentro de cada um de nós. E a maneira em que mais bem podemos fazer isso é conhecendo-os da melhor forma possível.

Eles [os indígenas] são parte de cada brasileiro que aqui habita, até dos que não têm ascendência indígena alguma, pois não se trata de sangue, mas, sim, de pertencimento.

most important characteristics of exceptional learners are their abilities, not their disabilities.

The time may have come when the issue of race could benefit from a period of "benign neglect."

The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect.

course, she told her husband that it wouldn't be the same without me, he talked to Spencer, and I was on the list." That was always the trick with Spencer. If she said no to one of his colleagues,