Quotes About Inclusion

Across the board, identity politics endorse the concept that people are essentially tribal, and our differences are irreconcilable, which of course makes diversity and inclusion impossible. This is the toxic dead-end of identity politics; it's a trap.

Trying to stop people from learning, sharing, and loving is a losing game because it means working against God and the plotline of God's universe.

stay Christian while rejecting supremacy and embracing solidarity instead.

if you and I do not stay Christian, if we give up whatever little voice and influence we have inside the larger Christian community, won't we be an answer to the misguided prayers of the religious company men and their followers, who want the rest of us gone?

We saw how Christian Zionism perpetuates a simple but terribly dangerous theological idea, an idea that Christian missiologist Lesslie Newbigin called "the greatest heresy in the history of monotheism," the idea that God chooses some people for exclusive privilege, leaving everyone else in a disfavored (or we might say "dis-graced") status.14 They are the other. They don't belong here. They are in the way. Their rights don't count.

We have to find a place that is ours. The doctors keep trying to make us fit into this world, but they're wrong. We need a world that fits us.

We're all aliens to someone. Even among our own people, most of us still feel like complete foreigners from time to time. Usually associated with invasions, abductions, or other hostile acts, the term "alien" gets a bad rap. But over the years, the word has come to mean something very different to me... future friend material.

The halls are full of kids, scrawny ones and fat ones, cool ones and uncool ones, freaks and jocks, cheerleaders and dogs, burnouts and nerds. It's like Berlin, divided, except there are more walls in this city, and they're better guarded.

If elementary training in neighbor love focuses on family and friends, in secondary neighbor-love studies, we learn to see the outlier, the outsider, the outcast, the stranger, the alien, and even the enemy as neighbors too. Such an education can be deeply subversive, some might even say unpatriotic. After all, political figures, military leaders, and rising demagogues consistently consolidate power by scapegoating and dehumanizing an outsider, an outcast, or an enemy. But

Resolve to Multiply Rather Than Divide

But I started to realize that it doesn't begin like this, that anybody can be the target for prejudice, all you have to be is too something . Too short, too fat, too clever, too big, too small, too slow, too new, too different from what others think of as normal.

We of alien looks or words must stick together.

Once you step inside, history has to be rewritten to include you. A fiction develops a story that weaves you into the social fabric, giving you roots and a local identity. You are assimilated, and in erasing your differences and making you one of their own, the community can maintain belief in its wholeness and purity. After two or three generations, nobody remembers the story is fiction. It has become fact. And this is how history is made.

Los Angeles has always been a boom town, chronically unable to . . . integrate its new population.

Sometimes she would be engaged in a laboratory exercise or a seminar when the instructor would say, Gentlemen, let's proceed, and sensing Ellie's frown would add, Sorry, Miss Arroway, but I think of you as one of the boys. The highest compliment they were capable of paying was that in their minds she was not overtly female.

The life of God will forever include the life of the people of God as well as the life of the world more generally.

Vimes had once discussed the Ephebian idea of 'democracy' with Carrot, and had been rather interested in the idea that everyone had a vote until he found out that while he, Vimes, would have a vote, there was no way in the rules that anyone could prevent Nobby Nobbs from having one as well. Vimes could see the flaw there straight away.

They've got something they do it with, I think it's called a mocracy, and it means everyone in the whole country can say who the new Tyrant is. One man ... one vet. ... Everyone has ... the vet. Except for women, of course. And children. And criminals. And slaves. And stupid people. And people of foreign extraction. And people disapproved of for, er, various reasons. And lots of other people. But everyone apart from them. It's a very enlightened civilization.

Newt had always suspected that people who regularly used the word community were using it in a very specific sense that excluded him and everyone he knew.

Mr Vimes, said Mrs Winkings, ve cannot help but notice that you still haf not employed any of our members in the Vatch... Say 'Watch', why don't you? Vimes thought. I know you can. Let the twenty-third letter of the alphabet enter your life.

Decided to put aside ethnic differences in the cause of making more money.

Yes, but nomes aren't hard to make," said Dorcas. "You just need other nomes." "You're weird.

someone has o speak up for them as has no voices

Rizzoli wanted to be heard, and so she sat shoulder to shoulder with the boys in the trumpet section.