Quotes About Inclusion

We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

When I was in primary school I was in a special needs group, which is the polite way of saying the dopey kids.

Working with special needs children is hard.

As I grew up, I became aware that there are people with special needs out there, and I have a real connection with them.

Once I got to the NBA I wanted to continue to work with the Special Olympics and those with special needs.

I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and film-making belonged to a very specific group, a clique.

The roles that I feel I get, or handed to me, or whatever, are not that interesting. I don't think it's a problem that's specific to black women. I think it's a problem that's specific to movie-making in America.

New York isn't segregated the way many American cities are, where there are specific ethnic neighborhoods that don't necessarily co-exist, or they co-exist but in a much separate sense.

To never think about race means that it doesn't really shape your life, or more specifically, the race that you have is not a burden to you.

It is great to see kits designed specifically with us in mind.

Accenture has long been a champion of inclusion and diversity and, specifically, gender balance at every level of our organization, including our board of directors.

I'm trying to appeal to the disenfranchised everybody, not just specifically gay.

Not only our political system is broken, but how we do business and have public discourse with one another. The system in Hollywood, specifically, is not depicting people of color; we're not even talking about Asian Americans or Latino Americans; we're not even getting into that question.

Our equality bill is specifically designed to protect religion and belief on exactly the same terms as race or gender or sexuality.

With Asian-Americans actors, specifically, there's been fewer opportunities for them in TV and film and fewer that have the ability to actually make a career out of it. It becomes a bit of a chicken and egg situation, where they're like, 'Oh, but they're not famous names,' but they haven't had a chance to be in anything yet, either.

It's very hard as an Asian actress to get seen for anything which isn't specifically Asian in England.

I'm mixed race - my dad's Caucasian, and my mom's Mexican - so I want to play anything and everything, from American to Latino, the whole spectrum; I'm insatiable.

I wanted to create characters who could do fantastic things but who weren't exactly superheros - characters who exist on sort of a spectrum from super-ability to disability.

If anything, I've seen myself as the full spectrum of colors, and to be faced with not being able to do something just because I'm of a particular race has been something that I've always found very difficult - even today.

We are a spectrum of colors in our family and that's what makes us so special.

Gender is great, and Im happy for anybody to celebrate wherever they are on the gender spectrum. Its got amazingly much easier in my lifetime.

There is no ageism or 'youthism' when it comes to freedom of speech. We are all citizens.

One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.

Realistically you can't win no championship with three white guys because the foot speed is too slow.