Quotes About Inclusion

Color must suffice. It has brought us to this night, this discussion, and it will take us into the future. All I truly know is that we rise and fall as one, one colored family living next door to one white family. We may not know the way through the forest, but we can pick each other up when we fall, and we will arrive together.

The word we. We are not one people but many different people. How can one person speak for this great, beautiful race – which is not one race but many, with a million desires and hopes and wishes for ourselves and our children? "For

If the correct things belonged to you, perhaps you might belong.

I was one of them on the dance floor and they were one of me. I jostled, was jostled in turn, collision as communication: I am here, we're here together. The bass bounced my shirt on my chest.

If two women were a flaw, what was a community?

Let one colored in and you're integrated. Let two in, you got a race war as they try to kiss up to whitey.

E pluribus unum - Out of many, one.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

What the fissure through which one sees disaster? The circle is unbroken; the harmony complete. Here is the central rhythm; here the common mainspring. I watch it expand, contract; and then expand again. Yet I am not included.

I wonder why men always talk about politics? Mary speculated. I suppose, if we had votes, we should, too. I

Suppose, for instance, that men were only represented in literature as the lovers of women, and were never the friends of men, soldiers, thinkers, dreamers; how few parts in the plays of Shakespeare could be allotted to them; how literature would suffer!

By fair process we mean engaging all the affected people in the process

I add that I who speak here am bone of the bone and flesh of the flesh of them that live within the veil.

Besides, They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed— I, too, am America.

I would like to see an America where people of any race, color or creed may live on a plane of cultural, material well-being, cooperating unhindered by sectarian, racial, or factional prejudices that do nobody any good.

My boss is white," said Simple. "Most bosses are," I said.

Closets, schmosets, everyone's out of the closet. Now where the fuck are the men !

The first question I ask is, "Who are you trying to reach?" By that I mean, "Specifically who do you imagine being in your small groups? Who is likely to opt out? Who are you willing to leave out?

That explains why those who join a group in which half or more of the members come from a previously existing group so often complain that the group is a bit cliquish and hard to break into. In most cases the problem isn't cliquishness. It's a differing set of relational needs, expectations, and capacities.

This can be very confusing and frustrating for people who are new to a community or church. The acts of friendship send one message, but the lack of connection sends another. It's why so many people complain about churches being cliquish.

If Jesus put Simon the Zealot (an insurrectionist who hated the Roman occupiers) on the same team as Matthew the tax collector (a collaborator with the Romans) and then made them room together, I'm not sure why we can't have some strong differences on the hot-button issues of our day and still march together under the banner of unity.

A veces odiamos lo que es diferente a nosotros. Pero muy amenudo se debe a que tenemos miedo de lo que no comocemos, de lo que es distinto. Y es porque, en el fondo... tememos que nos guste." Gerde

Todos tenemos derecho a ser amados alguna vez.

A veces odiamos lo que es diferente a nosotros. Pero muy a menudo se debe a que tenemos miedo de lo que no conocemos, de lo que es distinto. Y es porque, en el fondo... tememos que nos guste.