Quotes About Inclusion

De vegades odiem el que és diferent de nosaltres. Però molt sovint és perquè tenim por del que no coneixem, del que és diferent. I això respon al fet que en el fons..., ens fa por que ens agradi.

There are no real Californians. There are only people who live there and people who don't.

Frankie had no idea that too many people believed you could be from a right place or a wrong one.

There are amazing schools and amazing educators that are doing a wonderful job. And then there are a lot of educators that are not prepared to deal with inclusive education. They haven't been trained. It's really quite lovely and easy when you understand how to do it.

After a moment, she decided to stick out her own little hand alongside the other two, as though this was the way people greeted each other on the island. Hand extended, she looked up at the boys for approval.

Everywhere around me, already I see cliques, the kinds of cliques you see in schools everywhere: jocks, troublemakers, mathletes, you name it. Me, I am in a clique unto myself, the sole member of the group called "crazy.

I turn to look over my shoulder - in a minute, I will lay down my pen - and think, write that there is only one thing I know for certain, and it has everything to do with "happy". Indeed, it is the last thing I will say on the subject: There is not a story, in the entire history of the world, that cannot be improved upon by the inclusion of a character named Kit.

Sizeism = like racism, only against people who aren't a size two or four.

That's about it kid. When you're in you're in, when you're out, you're out.

Don't erase me

Hannah has gone over to her friend Delaney's house. Hannah has a slew of friends with names like that, Delaney and Cassidy and Reilly, and even a tiny, owlish girl named O'Malley: names, it seems, that their parents plucked arbitrarily from the Boston phone book.

You didn't mind someone shutting out the world as long as they were happy to take you inside with them.

Did you not understand me? You need me to speak in Ebonics?

For moving would never have been enough; he sees that now. It would have been the same anywhere. Children of Mixed Backgrounds Often Struggle to Find Their Place.

this was the first reason he came to love her: because she had blended in so perfectly, because she had seemed so completely and utterly at home.

Proof, she told herself, that I'm just as smart as the others. That I belong.

Sometimes you almost forgot: that you didn't look like everyone else.

You saw it in photos, yours the only black head of hair in the scene, as if you'd been cut out and pasted in. You thought: Wait, what's she doing there? And then you remembered that 'she' was 'you'. You kept your head down and thought about school, or space, or the future, and tried to forget about it. And you did, until it happened again.

to uproot some otherness, something hated and feared.

Never invite someone who is speaking a foreign language in your presence to "Go back to your country." The only time that phrase is every acceptable is if you are British and you are speaking to Madonna.

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.

What did former slaves become once emancipated?12 That second question is easy to miss if we assume that the only two conditions a person could occupy were either enslavement or full inclusion within the American polity complete with enjoyment of equal rights, or, in other words, citizenship as we currently conceptualize it.

It is 'where we are' that should make all the difference, whether we believe we belong there or not.