Quotes About Inclusion

The most important outcome of education is that students have a good quality of life and are productive members of society. Employment is the critical component for a successful quality of life for people with disabilities. Good jobs and/or careers that offer meaningful work, good pay and benefits, and social inclusion provide the key for successful outcomes. Page 3.

Lost people matter to God, and so they must matter to us.

Even in high school, I had friends that I didn't know were gay until years later. I'd find out on Facebook or something and be like, 'Oh, that explains some things ' or 'Wow, no wonder they were so cool.'

We should not blur the lines between legal and illegal immigrants. Millions of people around the world have gone through the process to come here legally and they followed the rules that required them to pay a fee, learn English, and learn about American history and government.

Debo decir que siento cierta debilidad por los grupos étnicos margnianados de la actualidad. Parece como si los antropólogos siempre estuviesen acechándolos, como si su unidad familiar media comprendiera tres hijos y un antropólogo que se sienta con ellos y les pregunta qué están desayunando.

Now, more than ever, human communities depend on a diversity of talents; not on a singular conception of ability.

The question of belonging is THE question addressed by the gospel.

A third way asks people who differ on this question to accept each other as Christ has accepted them, without predicating acceptance on affirming the other's lifestyle on this and many other moral questions.

There is something more powerful that the gospel calls us to give each other: not affirmation, not moral approval, but acceptance. Another word for acceptance is embrace. The opposite of exclusion is not mere tolerance but embrace. The "other" is received as one who is beloved.

Over four decades of pastoral ministry—I got started early—you make mistakes. But the mistakes you most regret are the ones that obscure the gospel and hurt the people you love, by saying in effect, "You do not belong," to those for whom Christ died to provide a place of belonging.

Equality begins with economic empowerment.

We were two dark haired women who moved in overlapping circles of writers, queers, artists, and feminists.

Persecution on racial or religious ground has absolutely no place in a nation given over to liberty and which calls itself a democracy.

I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in!

Black, yellow, brown, and white Diversity is what makes the world seem right Diversity, Dee-verse-i-teeeeee

We need to help students and parent cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community--and this nation.

When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes.

The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.

si no dejas que nadie pase al otro lado del muro por miedo a que resulte un enemigo, también terminas por dejar fuera a los amigos.

El problema es que, si no dejas que nadie pase al otro lado del muro por miedo a que resulte un enemigo, también terminas por dejar fuera a los amigos.

problema es que, si no dejas que nadie pase al otro lado del muro por miedo a que resulte un enemigo, también terminas por dejar fuera a los amigos.

Gradually, that first year in middle school, he began to understand—there were many ways to be a freak. Amy had no choice, but other people did. If you worked hard and concentrated, you could hide your freakish thoughts.

The gas price is determined by the market and effectively creates an auction for inclusion in the next Ethereum block.

That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves