Quotes About Inclusion

But sometimes when you're different You just need a different song

Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival." —René Dubos

Minorities, on the other hand, are always judged by their lowest common denominator.

If you are feeling constrained by a group that you belong to, ask yourself, "How can I participate in this community and still be who I am?

Often, the key to getting what we need is simply to let it in.

No need to queue up; step forward and count yourself in.

Today when I think about diversity, I actually think about the word 'inclusion.' And I think this is a time of great inclusion. It's not men, it's not women alone. Whether it's geographic, it's approach, it's your style, it's your way of learning, the way you want to contribute, it's your age - it is really broad.

To write is to educate and to entertain. Never to exclude.

Let's not encourage that scourge by accepting its premise that there exists such a thing as different races of human beings. There is the human race, and that's that.

Look, calling somebody in a wheelchair handicapable doesn`t all of a sudden give them the power to climb stairs or the ability to grab Ho-Hos off the top shelf.

Like they say, it takes all types to make the world. But sometimes you wish it didn't.

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men can do." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.

Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all.

Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women." 

Instead of either/or, I discovered a whole world of and.

We must not only vote but fight to vote. The voting booth really is the one place on earth where the least powerful equal the powerful. p176

Women are always better liked if we sacrifice ourselves for something bigger - and something bigger always means including men, even though something bigger for men doesn't usually mean including women.

If I could, I would leave an open space for your story on every page.

Never having seen women play chess, they assumed this game wasn't for them and without even a female teacher as role model, they dropped out.

Women are always better liked if we sacrifice ourselves for something bigger—and something bigger always means including men, even though something bigger for men doesn't usually mean including women. In

Among their first questions was said to be: Where are the women?

We learn from difference, not from sameness.

Filters let in a cup of water," he says, "but keep out the ocean.