Quotes About Inclusion

Nature made a mistake which I have had corrected and I am your daughter.

Almost everybody I met had a Christine Jorgensen joke.

Everybody is Other in Maupin.

You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember, was only true as long as everybody agreed to it.

Nihil humanum a me alienum puto, said the Roman poet Terence: 'Nothing human is alien to me.' The slogan of the old Immigration and Naturalization Service could have been the reverse: To us, no aliens are human.

Now, for example, people with freckles aren't thought of as a minority by the non-freckled. They aren't a minority in the sense we're talking about. And why aren't they? Because a minority is only thought of as a minority when it constitutes some kind of a threat to the majority, real or imaginary. And no threat is ever quite imaginary.

All right, we've heard your liberty speech. Does that include us or doesn't it?

Women are no good," he told me bitterly. "They spoil everything. They haven't got the spirit of adventure. Men understand each other much better when they're alone together. Uncle Peter (that's our Scoutmaster) says women should stay at home and mend socks. That's all they're fit for!

Do we look like thrill-seekers? Wasn't it enough that we had to put up that sign reading NO HABLA ESPANOL and acknowledge the existence of thirty percent of the population, even in the negative?

That's it, said Cavuto. You're too much of a nerd to be gay. I'm contacting the committee. They'll revoke your rainbow flag and you will not be permitted anywhere near the parade.

In Breeze's business one got used to running across the skeletons in people's closets. If Billy's skeleton wore women's underwear, it didn't really matter. Homosexuality on Billy Winston was like acne on a leper.

That won't work, isn't Special Forces where everyone gets a hug?" Charlie called. "That's the Special Olympics," Rivera said

Charity is scraps from the table, social justice is a seat at the table, and remember, we want a seat.

Dünyada iki tip insan vard?r evlat. Senin gibiler ve bizim gibiler.

She thinks she is white,' they used to sneer, and that was as bad as a curse.

National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same.

The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body.

Herkes kendi geleneklerine uymayana barbarl?k der" - Montaigne 16. Yüzy?l Rönesans Ça??

Las herejías son siempre expresión del hecho concreto de que existen excluidos.

Toplumd???na itilenleri yeniden onlarla bütünleÅŸtirmedikçe, Tanr?'n?n kullar?n? deÄŸiÅŸtirmek olanaks?zd?r.

Sürü yeniden toplanacaksa, sürü d???na itilmiÅŸlerin yeniden bulunmas? gerekliydi.

Boceto: esa misma tarde, mamá espolvorea con talco el cuerpecito rosado de mi hermana, yo pregunto cuándo va a salirle la pilila, mamá explica que a las niñas no les sale pilila, y se quedan así. De golpe vuelvo a ver a Mary Lena, y las blancas braguitas asomando bajo la suave brisa de su falda azul, y comprendo que es rubia y altiva, e inaccesible, porque es diferente. Toda relación es imposible, pertenece a otra raza.

Was that what Starfleet was, when it came down to it? One massive high-school science club? Why had no one ever mentioned this before?

Polish, Lithuanian, and German—Dom.