Quotes About Inclusion

Our country is made up of groups of immigrants who came here hoping for a better life. They created America. It's a sad thing to have so many people not remember that, including Trump.

It's great that we have so many people from so many diverse background in the 'Drag Race' family.

Sexuality didn't come into it when I was bullied, but for so many years, being LGBTQ was one of the biggest things you would be bullied for at school. Hopefully, as time goes on, it will be a completely accepted thing that people won't have to think about.

For so many years, women and people who aren't white have had to be undeniable to get into line-ups.

I am addicted to hockey now. I've seen it on TV, but to be there? I had no idea that white people were having so much fun without me.

Whether it is tribalism, racism, xenophobia, or anti-Muslim backlash we're talking about, we spend so much time and energy fighting ways to divide ourselves from others.

These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them.

Some sorrows were not open to outside intervention or comfort. Just as some brotherhoods were beyond the reckoning of people outside of them.

Just as any foreigner is not fully human.]

El sábado pasado, el palacio del Gran Duque estaba abierto y lleno de campesinos para quienes nada estaba vetado, y se bailaba por todas partes en la gran sala. La participación de este tipo de gente es, a mi parecer, una imagen de la libertad perdida, que se renueva así todos los años en la fiesta principal de la ciudad (...).

A person who is worth nothing must introduce you to a person worth next-to-nothing, and that person to another, and so on and so forth until finally you can step across the threshold, almost one of the family.

En una sociedad como la nuestra son bien conocidos los procedimientos de exclusión. El más evidente, y el más familiar también, es lo prohibido.

In the seminar room, Helen had lit the chalice and given a short speech about not focusing on one kind of minister—a man, a woman, a person of color, or someone within a certain age range—when the person who most needed to hear this slipped in.

En ningún cuerpo falta un lunar.

It's a shame there aren't any Native Bears here to share it with us, said Brother. Never fear, said Gramps, seating himself at the head of the table. My great, great grandmother was one-quarter Native Bear and I am ready to share. Let's eat!

The Church is the place where the incompetent, the unfinished, and even the unhealthy are welcome. I believe Jesus agrees.

From childhood, she had regarded books as the emblems of a secret brotherhood.

And he reflected that one cannot completely become his own self until one is completely among others.

I'm ready to become a French person amongst French people, and more than ever I have the love for my country deeply ingrained in my heart.

There's as much great authorship in the filmmaker community as in the literary community, and I'd love to welcome more filmmakers into the fold.

I have an accent, I'm limited, I have to play foreign parts - I would love to play American parts but I can't because I have an accent. You are more limited as a foreigner in every area.

I don't care who you love. If you love this country enough to risk your life for it, you shouldn't have to hide who you are.

If we love and identity people with HIV and other oppressed people, we can help transform the epidemic.

I loved the idea of doing a love story with people over the age of 60 and a film that will hopefully give so many of the audience a chance to see themselves on the screen.