Quotes About Inclusion

That's the one thing about here, the South, you've missed. You'd be amazed if you knew how many people are on your side, if side's the right word. You're no special case. The woods are full of people like you, but we need some more of you." She

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none

Hypocrites have just as much right to live in this world as anybody." She

Don't say nigger, Scout. That's common.

That's the one thing about here, the South, you've missed. You'd be amazed if you knew how many people are on your side, if side's the right word. You're no special case. The woods are full of people like you, but we need more of you.

From now on it'll be everybody less one.

That's what I thought, too, when I was your age. If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I'm beginning to understand something. I think I'm beggining to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all the time. . . it's because he wants to stay inside.

Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world?

Everybody feels safe belonging not to the excluded minority but to the excluding majority. You think, Oh, I'm glad that's not me. It's basically the same in all periods in all societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of troubling things.

If people aren't equal, where would you fit in?

If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair." —Shirley Chisholm

What I've always found interesting in gardens is looking at what people choose to plant there. What they put in. What they leave out. One small choice and then another, and soon there is a mood, an atmosphere, a series of limitations, a world.

Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.

To be banished from Rome is but to live outside of Rome.

People with disabilities not only need to be given lives, they need to be given lives worth living. (paraphrased, not a direct quote))

In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends.

I have autism

However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our names are still written on His heart; nor shall we lose our share in Jesus' love.

We have tolerance, respect, and equality in our written laws but not in the hearts of some of our people.

I didn't want to be written about as a human-interest story. I didn't want to be a passing thing. You know, now we move on to the fat girl who had her stomach stapled. I didn't want to become a gimmick: the disabled model.

The stories of kids who grew up in communities like mine weren't being written about in many books for kids.

Where is it written that the Olympics are only for winners?

No one should be written off because of their background. This is a moral proposition but it is also an important political lesson.

I've wondered if 'Harry Potter' would have been as big if it was 'Harriet Potter.' Now that I've written a screenplay - and raising a son in particular - I'm looking at story content and realizing how limited women are onscreen.