Quotes About Inclusion

So, Mexico, Brazil, they wanted their national culture to be 'blackish' - really brown, a beautiful brown blend. And finally, I discovered that in each of these societies the people at the bottom are the darkest skinned with the most African features.

Schools connect children to their communities. Jobs connect adults to their societies. Persons with autism deserve to walk the same path.

When I speak about 'we,' it gets very complex very quickly. Having grown up in the United States, but also being very much a member of Nigerian societies and also different parts of Nigerian societies, I understand that we construct particular 'we's.'

I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.

We should all be able to live as human beings - and to be recognized as such by the societies we live in.

Women are the half of the engine of our societies; they are half of the engines of our economies.

We all want equality, we all want to be loved, we all want to have the full potential and opportunity to grow and to participate fully in our societies.

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.

Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.

In this society, you have to belong to something, I feel, and all we have in the neighborhood is a gang.

The hallmark of a healthy society has always been measured by how it cares for the disadvantaged.

The mission of the Ruby Bridges Foundation is to create educational opportunities like science camp that allow children from different racial, cultural, and socio-economic backgrounds to build lasting relationships.

I didn't want to be the aunt where you come over and can't sit on the sofa.

One disco, one soft ball game, one lost love, one gay pride rally at a time.

Two races share today the soil of Canada. These people had not always been friends. But I hasten to say it. There is no longer any family here but the human family. It matters not the language people speak, or the altars at which they kneel.

When I sold my first middle-grade novel in 2005, it wasn't that common to put an author photo on the back flap, but 24-year-old Korean-American me insisted. I wanted Asian girls to see my face. And more than that, I wanted them to see what is possible.

By the time I sold Birmingham City football club in 2009, 75% of the directors were women, which I take great pride in - that's unique in business, full stop.

I did this whole series on the buffalo soldiers-on black soldiers-I did another series on black cowboys, and I presented myself to the gallery system, and all these people with these massive collections didn't know there were black cowboys or black soldiers. I ended up hitting a niche I didn't know was there.

Individuals whose asylum claims have been accepted have gone on to become professors, soldiers in our military, artists, and more.

Attacking another American's qualifications solely based on his ethnic background is bigotry. Plain and simple.

I want to tell human stories not solely based on race. There are so many great actresses and actors that are out there, and I just want to see them do good work.

When you're walking down a street and you are a brown-skinned person or you're a person that lives in an immigrant community, there's no differentiating on - solely on the basis of what you look like. They don't walk down the street saying, hi, I'm an immigrant; I'm here legally or not.

It is my solemn duty to be an ally to the trans community.

You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.