Quotes About Inclusion

Everyone has the right to be who they are

If you are picking a bunch of mixed flowers, and if you happen to see, over in a corner, a small, sad, neglected-looking pink or paeony that is all by itself and has obviously never had a chance in life, you have not the heart to pass it by, to leave it to mourn alone, while the night comes on. You have to go back and pick it, very carefully, and put it in the centre of the bunch among its fair companions, in the place of honour.

Ramona felt sad and somehow lonely, as if she were left out of something important, because her family was in trouble and there was nothing she could do.

Nobody understood what is was like to be six-years-old and the littlest in the family.

Yard Apes! yelled Ramona, her name for the sort of boys who always got the best balls, who were always first on the playground, and who chased their soccer balls through other people's hopscotch games.

Yes, we have an innate tendency to think in us and them categories, but we look to the leader to help us know who the us is and who the them is. The leader can define who is in and who is out... When the leader draws the circle in an exclusionary way, with the rhetoric of hostility, the sense of threat among the followers is heightened. When the rhetoric is expansive and inclusionary, the threat is reduced.

Not surprisingly, of all racial groups, Whites are the most isolated. They are the most likely to live in racially homogeneous communities and the least likely to come into contact with people racially different from themselves.23

Zhou and Lee found that even Asian students who exhibited mediocre or below-average academic performance were given the benefit of the doubt by teachers and encouraged to improve, and sometimes placed in honors or AP courses without the academic profile usually required for such placement. By contrast, Mexican participants in their study were rarely placed in the honors or AP classes.

The demographics race we're losing badly," said Senator Lindsey O. Graham (SC), adding, "We're not generating enough angry White guys to stay in business for the long term."52

White parents with White children, and Black parents, like his own, with Black children.

racially homogeneous communities and the least likely to come into contact with people racially different from themselves.23

We must all be able to embrace who we are in terms of our racial and cultural heritage, not in terms of assumed superiority or inferiority but as an integral part of our daily experience in which we can take pride.

six largest groups by country of origin are Chinese Americans, Filipino Americans, Indian Americans, Vietnamese Americans, Korean Americans, and Japanese Americans, together representing 83 percent of the total Asian population in the US.5

The leader has to ask the question, how is the circle being drawn? Who is inside it? Who is outside it? What can I do to name the circle bigger?

There are loads of people like us. We are all here because we like it here or are married to Britons or both. If I may say so, you are a little more cosmopolitan, possibly even a little more dynamic and productive, sometimes even more adorable and gorgeous, because we are here with you. If you think the only people you should have in your country are the people you produce yourselves, you are an idiot. And

I would submit that if you think the only people you should have in your country are the people you produce yourselves, you are an idiot.

In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not.

There is no evidence to suggest that Charles Lindbergh would ever have countenanced atrocities. But equally, when a person speaks of the world as having too many of one kind of person, is within hailing distance of those who do.

Can we "belong anywhere?" Should we try?

shibboleth. People in Northern Ireland are naturally

The American dream works when our common humanity matters more than our interesting differences and when together they create endless possibilities.

What does it mean to be an American today? It's a question that will answer itself if we get back to what's brought us this far: widening the circle of opportunity, deepening the meaning of freedom, and strengthening bonds of community. Shrinking the definition of them and expanding the definition of us. Leaving no one behind, left out, looked down on.

It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.

It must grieve the Holy Spirit when a group or a family or a church communicates "not welcome" to those who desperately long for a place at the table.