Quotes About Inclusion

Do not diminish who you are. Your gender, your heritage, your identity. That's what makes you unique. - Strong by Kailin Gow

Why have the English remained to English? Throughout India's history conquerors have come from elsewhere, and all of them --- Turk, Arab, Hun, Mongol, Persian --- have become Indian. If --- when ---this Pakistan happens, those Muslims who leave Delhi, Lucknow and Hyderabad to go there, They will be leaving their homes. But when the English leave, they'll be going home.

You don't mind the exclusivity, you just mind that you aren't part of it, Layla had said once, as if this was a Maryam-specific attitude rather than absolutely everyone's objection to exclusivity.

Don't set yourself apart in the way you dress, the way you think, the outdated codes of behavior you cling to, the ideologies to which you attach your loyalties. Because if you do, you will be treated differently—not because of racism, though that does still exist, but because you insist on your difference from everyone else in this multiethnic, multireligious, multitudinous United Kingdom of ours. And look at all you miss out on because of it.

They opt in to being tagged by their friends. That's a different thing to the police watching you at all times because you're a climate activist or a guy who goes to a mosque.

I…I belong to those who care about me.

Right now, my deep suspicion is that it's possible, perhaps even inevitable, to live between – no, among – nationalities. It's a bit like wearing different suits, all of them the wrong size, all of them slightly ridiculous, either too baggy or too tight. They don't make the right size anymore, it's been discontinued.

Many of the people I write about were deliberately left out of the history books that we were forced to read in school. For me, that history was "written wrong" and needed to be corrected. My intention was to make them visible so they could be role models for others. To show how each, in his or her own way, dribbled gracefully around that obstacle in the narrow corridor.

If you want to attract executives who value diversity, then build a system that leads to diverse interviewing teams without 'tokenizing' people.

The destiny of the Latino community is interwoven with the destiny of the United States.

Discrimination is not liberal. Arguing against discrimination is not intolerance.

Whether it's racism, homophobia, misogyny, transphobia, xenophobia, religious intolerance or other bias - we demand to live in a country where we can be safe to be who we are, believe what we want and love whomever we want.

We must heal the divisions caused by intolerance and bigotry.

We must fight intolerance, racism and the far-Right.

A lot of the time, black people, we don't introduce ourselves as black.

Todd introduced me to the world I always dreamed of being a part of.

We've heard so much about introducing the Rooney Rule but I don't hear enough conversations about putting in place things so that females can get interviews.

I can't imagine how hard it must be to invest in a community... when you don't feel heard and when you don't feel seen.

I don't invest in shares in companies that don't have women on their board.

I have been working in male-dominated industries most of my life. When I started my career in investment banking, I was one of two women in my analyst class.

Investments in diversity are critical for the long-term viability and future competitiveness of WWT.

What's disheartening for me and to all of us in GLAAD is when it comes to major studio films, LGBT people are basically invisible. And when we do show up, it's largely a part of comedies as carictatures to service a joke that's at the expense of the character.

Part of what I do, after feeling invisible for a long time, is make an effort not to be invisible any more.

I don't want anyone to walk through the world feeling invisible ever again.