Quotes About Inclusion

Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.

When I'm in L.A., I'm part of the Irish community out there, and I just love it.

I couldn't fit in the Irish community in New York. I was never one of the boys because they would talk about baseball or basketball, and I knew nothing about it.

I had quite a scattered childhood. I was Irish in London, because I had my secondary school education there. I never really fitted anywhere. I didn't feel it was a negative thing, and I was never made to feel different - I just knew I was.

The whole world has American dreams. This country has people from all parts of the world. We have Irish who live here, we have Brazilians.

History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.

Your gender becomes irrelevant when you are in a performance-based environment.

Human beings are human beings, irrespective of barriers.

Government should give citizenship to anyone irrespective of religion.

You cannot isolate yourself from the crowd - even if you want to.

You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.

You cannot isolate a group and say you're not going to serve their needs.

Growing up as an Asian American in this society, there were a lot of times where you feel isolated or out of place as an Asian. And growing up in White America, that's absolutely my experience. And I think that's why I got into acting because I wanted to be anybody else but Asian.

We want a country which is not isolated and where democracy rules.

The color and the diversity dies out, and it gets whiter and whiter, and that's in any field. There is also this idea that there can only be one gay person or there can only be one Asian-American woman in the office, and so it also perpetuates itself where we are isolated, especially the more successful we get.

My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation - often elevated loneliness - to community. It may be a denigrated community that is filthy and poor, but they are not alone; they are with people.

Africa should not again face isolation or stigmatisation based on ignorance and unrepresentative imagery.

Women's inclusion in the economy is one of the most important issues in Israel.

I wanted to bring likable Arabs into the average Israeli living room.

I'd like to see the haredim become part of the Israeli society.

Israeli Arabs are equal citizens.

When Will and I were growing up in Los Angeles, his girlfriends were always Israeli, so we'd always be hanging out with Israelis in L.A.

It's kind of a shame that it's even an issue. Not being gay, I can't fully appreciate how complicated that is. In the article, the interviewer asked me, and I said that if I were, I would just say it.

It seems to me the most important issue in the LGBT community is the right to be queer-the right to be free of the heterosexual assumption.