Quotes About Inclusion

I really would like to be an advocate for LGBT youth or transgender youth, or transgender people in general.

Once we increase the proportion of women in technical roles, the challenge is to retain them and ease the transition to senior positions.

There's not a lot of short quarterbacks in the league, but I think there's more guys paving the way for the transition of not really caring about how big you are, how tall you are.

Christmas is, for those who wish to follow the way of Jesus, an invitation to accept into our comfortable and safe lives those who come to us from far away, who seem ragged, marginal, in transition.

If I understood the great opportunities that are available to women and underrepresented minorities in the field of tech I would have made the transition from traditional engineering to the technology field much earlier in my career.

I've always been Sarah. My gender identity has always existed. I've always been a woman. Gay people aren't straight before they come out as gay, and transgender people are who they are before they come out and transition.

Being transgender is not just a medical transition.

We've all been watching stories about heterosexuals forever... As a gay kid, you are always having to translate. You are always having to pretend like you are one of the other characters. You're not seeing your life accurately reflected.

I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.

Now, every organization has to have a translator for the Hispanics on the teams, and that helps a lot.

Inclusion and transparency have been mainstays of my leadership. It's about education and reaching out.

Shining a light on issues like the gender pay gap and whether firms are imposing and meeting targets is how diversity gets pushed up the priority lists of boards. Greater transparency allows for more effective scrutiny.

I'm a woman. I'm black. I am passionate. I am transparent.

I knew 'Transparent' and saw a few episodes of 'Orange is the New Black,' so I knew about the trans actor in that cast. Of course, I saw 'Boys Don't Cry' back in the day. But the path that led me to this subject was different... it's just my curiosity as a human being more than my awareness of any political struggles.

We are fighting for free, fair and transparent elections, which means that every citizen of Belarus will be able to participate in those elections.

It's distressing to see anyone in the community struggle to access public transport - whether they're elderly, customers with a disability or families with prams.

Sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name. And they're always glad you came. You wanna go where people know, your troubles are all the same. You wanna go where everybody knows your name.

Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it.

Society has no place for active lunatics.

Think of it like this. Sara is a minority within a minority within a minority, OK?

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Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences.

I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.