Quotes About Inclusion

And as for people shunning us because of our known association with homosexuals"—here she wiggled her eyebrows, because she sounded ridiculously like Joseph McCarthy—"I say we don't want new members who would think like that. We want people who will admire us for taking a stand and who will say, 'Yes, that's Christianity; that's how I want to live it and that's the church I want to belong to.

The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.

References to everybody just disturb me, and it also disturbs me that the people who make policy are not the same people who live policy. When we talk about everybody, we are leaving a whole lot of bodies out.

What's the point of living if you don't belong anywhere?

But she never just accepted me for the way I was.

Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.

There must be a thousand words for stranger in the explored galaxy. Let one of them be sister ---

I don't know why they are here but it doesn't mean that they don't belong.

disability rights and to demand full access. Ed Roberts and others at the University of California Berkeley in the 1960s forced the university to admit them, to provide access to classes and other activities, and to provide the support

The efforts of Roberts and others eventually gave rise to the independent living movement to enable all individuals with disabilities to live as independently as possible.32

No man—or woman—left behind.

Theology that is not in touch with [the marginalized's] life experience cannot be living theology.

if you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves.

I used to think those were the barrio rules, Latinos and blacks in, whites out —a place we down cats weren't supposed to go. But love teaches you. Clears your head of any rules.

Without us, in other words, there can never be hope of a We.

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Decent people live around here and that's how we're going to live. You're Americans now. He had his Chivas Regal bottle on his knee.

LGBT members of society need not prove their legitimacy but only live significant lives that bring us all together.

It was true what Michael said about him: his blindness wasn't something missing; it was simply something different.

I love that everyone's into sports, that no one even talks about loving it 'cause it's too obvious. It's the air we breathe.

It never ceases to amaze me how adaptable social geometry can be. Within a couple of days I went from being the centre of the circle to an indefinite point outside its circumference.

I believe, as followers of Christ, we are commanded to reach out to the least of these in the name of Jesus and show them they matter a great deal to God, who sacrificed His only Son to reach them with His love.

Adler returned to his father's Temple Emanu-El in 1873 and preached a sermon on what he called the "Judaism of the Future." To survive in the modern age, the younger Adler argued, Judaism must renounce its "narrow spirit of exclusion." Instead of defining themselves by their biblical identity as the "Chosen People," Jews should distinguish themselves by their social concern and their deeds on behalf of the laboring classes.

The new normal is to have strong women and girls as typical a character for television, films, and books. There wouldn't be a need to have a category for "Strong Women". Strong by Kailin Gow