Quotes About Inclusion

The massive ethnic communities that make up the mosaic of American society cannot be adequately described as "minorities." There is no "majority.

languages as Asians, who outnumber them nearly four to one.121 Linguistic diversity is not only a sign of cultural isolation and fragmentation, it contributes to the barriers

It is a painful irony that people who are promoting the make-believe equality of inclusion and diversity in schools are attacking charter schools that are producing the real equality of educational achievement.

Una sociedad que puede aprovechar todo tipo de talentos de todos los segmentos de su población tiene obvias ventajas sobre sociedades donde sólo se permite que los talentos de los pocos preseleccionados determinen su destino.

This is a Christian country, and if you don't like it, get out," she remembers one teacher telling her.

In order to pin the blame for declining SAT scores on the Supreme Court's school prayer decisions, Barton also has to overlook the massive changes in American education at the time. Many of them involved the expansion of the school systems to include previously excluded and disadvantaged groups of people, which predictably resulted in a significant increase in the number of test-takers and a decrease in average scores.

Soul selects her own Society

What we found is that when people [are] excluded, you see activity in…the neural regions [of the brain] that are also involved in the distressing component of pain, or what sometimes people call the 'suffering component' of pain.

Humans are designed to be with other humans, even those with mixed blood. They need each other's laughter. They require each other's sorrows.

There's something to be said for visibility, something about being easier to love.

Anything you want to be, you can come be that with us. Rain or shine, no problem

It seems clear, from reading the daily news if nothing else, that there will always be some in this world who want their holy wars, who will discriminate, vilify, and even kill in the name of God. They have narrowed down the concept of neighbor to include only those like themselves, in terms of creed, caste, race, sex, or sexual orientation. But there is also much evidence that there are many who know that a neighbor might be anyone at all, and are willing to act on that assumption.

You'd be surprised, Mr. Winshaw. They give library cards to anyone these days. Even secretaries.

They're just weeds, love, they don't belong anywhere.' Her granddaughter stuck out her bottom lip and furrowed her brow. 'That doesn't seem very nice. Everything belongs somewhere.

I'm just pulling up these weeds.' 'Why?' She thought about this for a second. 'Well, they don't belong here.' 'Oh. Where do they belong, then?' 'They're just weeds, love, they don't belong anywhere.' Her granddaughter stuck out her bottom lip and furrowed her brow. 'That doesn't seem very nice. Everything belongs somewhere.

It was to be a place for the forgotten, the abandoned and the homeless who faced a terrible illness alone. Unlike the Gift of Love home, it would have the capacity to accommodate women and children as well as men.

Our invitation to community, which we read at the beginning of our gatherings, includes this important line: "At The Refuge, everyone gives, everyone receives.

A core principle in our Refuge group is that we all can be an advocate and we all need an advocate. They are not mutually exclusive.

Most Bolton students were scions of the city's wealthiest families. My crewe stuck out like hooker at church. We werent part of their pampered, priveliged world, and many of our classmates were quick to remind us of that fact. Taunting the "boat kids" was practically a varsity sport.

Whitney misread my silent horror. "I'm excited, too! And don't worry, I snagged your friend Ella Francis as well. We can all hang together." Emphasized in that clueless way adults speak when trying to sound hip.

It seemed the architect couldn't stop until he'd incorporated

In the one place everyone looks like me--has my name--i am the most foreign.

Why go to all the trouble of meeting new people if you're not going to work on making them a part of your life?

If marriage can be redefined so that it no longer means a man and a woman but two men or two women, why stop there? Why not allow three men or a woman and two men to constitute a marriage?