Quotes About Inclusion

When we are taught that safety lies always with sameness, then difference, of any kind, will appear as a threat

I used to love being the class clown. I loved to make jokes and make people laugh. There was a set of students who would find it funny. But the cool students were like, 'Eeew!'

'Vote Love' means vote equality. It means vote change. It means vote what's right for humanity.

I love immigrants. Legal, illegal - they're not to be despised.

The blind can see love, the deaf can hear love, the mute can express love, and the disabled can carry love.

Empower the future with love. Disgraceful men don't stand a place in the kingdom of god.

Ask yourself, if they getting married, would you be upset if you weren't invited? If the answer is no, then that's an easy name to cross off your list.

life's better with girls. boys need girls.

No arbitrary obstacles should prevent people from achieving those positions for which their talents fit them and which their values lead them to seek. Not birth, nationality, color, religion, sex, nor any other irrelevant characteristic should determine the opportunities that are open to a person—only his abilities.

I think Ray might have wanted a son. One night when I was seven or eight I announced to my family that I wanted to play hockey with the boys on Friday nights and Ray became just a little too eager. Okay he shouted. All right We have to get you a stick We have to get tape I'll be waiting in the car

Li vaig preguntar què en traurien, ella i la resta de dones, de les actes, si cap no sabia llegir? (I ella, per la seva banda, em podia haver preguntat: Què en traiem de viure si no som al món?)

By embracing the "outcast," Jesus underscored the "sinfulness" of the persons and systems that cast them out.

Absolute hospitality would in no way amount to the absence of violence. To the contrary, it would enthrone violence precisely under the guise of nonviolence because it would leave the violators unchanged and the consequences of violence unremedied.

Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans even as I exclude myself from the community of sinners

The problem is that we don't believe that we are much alike as we are. Whites and blacks, Catholic and Protestants, men and women. If we saw each other as more alike, we might be very eager to join in one human family in this world, and to care about that family the way we care about our own.

When you're an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.

But everyone joins a band in this life. Only some of them play music.

The problem, Mitch, is that we don't believe we are as much alike as we are. Whites and blacks. Catholics and Protestants, men and women. If we saw each other as more alike, we might be very eager to join in one big human family in this world, and to care about the family the way we care about our own.

a chauffeur. Tables for two became a four-top and a decision: Which of us sat next to you and helped cut your food? We expanded in every way—and it quickly became the norm.

If differences can be hidden, perhaps they aren't differences at all.

In a subway car, my skin would typically fall in the middle of the color spectrum. On street corners, tourists would ask me for directions. I was, in four and a half years, never an American; I was immediately a New Yorker.

It is possible to adore those newly come into your world, to envision, no matter how late in the day, a happily entwined future with those who have not been part of your past.

The blast wave that passed through my sister's office doubtless passed through devout Muslims, atheist Muslims, gay Muslims, funny Muslims, and lovestruck Muslims—not to mention Pakistani Christians, Chinese engineers, American security contractors, and Indian Sikhs. What civilization, then, did the bomb target? And from what civilization did it originate?

If differences can be hidden, perhaps there aren't differences at all