Quotes About Inclusion

Human beings don't necessarily exist inside of (or correspond to) the neat racial, gendered, or national boxes into which we often unthinkingly place them.

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

The only problem was, the founders left a lot of people out of the Constitution. They left out poor people and black people and female people. It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America. And it still goes on today.

Human beings don't necessarily exist inside of (or correspond to) the neat racial, gendered or national boxes into which we often unthinkingly place them. It's a mistake to ask literature to reinforce such structures. Literature tends to crack them. Literature is where we free ourselves.

there is a great need in all of us to be accepted, but you must trust what is unique or different about yourself, even if it is odd or unpopular.

I am an African. I am white. I, in my humble way, and others in their much more brave way, have earned that right.

We also need to see black characters somewhere other than in films about slavery. We badly need something more contemporary and more pertinent. (Interview in A Contemporary Cuba Reader)

As cities were melting pots in the nineteenth century, suburbs have become the twentieth-century equivalent...minorities, refugees and other population subgroups have ...entered the suburbs.

Fear of "the other" may be an animating force for many supporters of far-right parties, but "inclusion" of the other within an inherently unjust system will not be powerful enough to defeat those forces.

It seems to me that if you wish to apply laws to us, it were only reasonable to consult us on them, and from what you have read to me about Parliament, I do not think any dragons are invited to go there

I was back in comfortable plain skirts again, but they looked at me anyway as they went away, not with hostility, but not the way any of them would ever have looked at a woodcutter's girl from Dvernik. It was the way I had looked at Prince Marek, at first. They looked at me and saw someone out of a story, who might ride by and be stared at, but didn't belong in their lives at all.

I had people, in the plural, that I could ask to join me in the library, and even if they said no, they weren't really saying no, they were only saying not this time.

A nation is people as well," Alosha said. "More people than just the few you love best yourself.

she was one of them again, one of the actors moving in the stage, as graceful as any of them.

I didn't know those normal kids and maybe I'd never know them, but each one of them was a story whose unhappy ending hadn't been written yet, and in its place I'd inscribed one line with my own hand

So ask yourself, you swirling tornado of a human being, in a world of disoriented honeybees, do you want to look locked out the minute you sit down?

But we love you," my parents said. "We love you very much." I know, but they loved me as a girl. The boy within me was stuck with me. Not till much later did I find out that the boy within was really a girl.

Remind us again, brave friend. What countries may we sing into? What lines should we all be crossing?

She was thinking about prejudice, how it might begin so simply-- they come from elsewhere, they don't look the way I do. Why did people want to match? And here they were in the great multicultural city of the first African-American but also half-white U.S. president in history.

If women cannot eat the same food as men, we cannot experience equal status in the community. As long as women are asked to bring a self-denying mentality to the communal table, it will never be round, men and women seated together; but the same traditional hierarchical dais, with a folding table for women at the foot.

Enough small empty boxes thrown into a big empty box fill it full.

It was my child who taught me to understand so clearly all people are equal in their humanity and that all have the same human rights

No tienes que hacer nada para caer bien o mal. O te acepta o te tira de lado.

A madman is one who considers himself sane and thinks that fools don't belong in his rank.