Quotes About Inclusion

To be baptized is a sign that everything we are – work and play, personality and character, commitments and passions, family and ethnicity – is gathered up and given shape and definition by our identity as one of God's own children.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

It was just another of those sharp shards of bigotry you find when you run your fingers across the Canadian mosaic.

Man will not be brought up with the savage idea of considering his species as his enemy, because the accident of birth gave the individuals existence in countries distinguished by different names

Conceiving a development project without women's participation is like using only four fingers when we have ten.

As a rule, for any society that is single-mindedly interested in its own promotion and thus survival, it would have to have a huge population and it would have to send its people out, not letting too many others in.

Suddenly, he wanted all of them, wanted to gather them up—David and Delores, Juanita and Carine and Katherine, Uncle Connor and Brad—and place them in an orchestra that would play the music of his life. He wanted to leave out none of it—not the trombone, not the cello, not the cymbals or the violin. Synthesis. He needed a fusing together of all the strands of his life: past and present, black and white, poor and rich.

The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down.

MAKE AMERICA NEW YORK.

This is that family feeling, he thought. Of total acceptance, belonging to people. A connection that eclipsed everything.

EVERYONE AT YAMPA VALLEY

I feel apart from everything and a part of everything.

Jesus is handing out God's party invitations. They read: "You're invited to my party in the new creation. Come as you are.

I have no problems with a multicultural society; I think that is to the benefit of the country. But you have to be careful what levels you take it to.

That's my dream, to empower people, because there should be no reason that the colour of your skin should stop you from doing everything you want to do.

In reality, black women, women of color, are powerful, bold, dynamic, and self-assured, so there's no reason their TV counterparts shouldn't be as such.

There was an idea of accepting everyone; there was no sense of exclusion.

The problem for many people with disabilities is not that we are not able to work a certain number of hours a week. It's that no-one will let us.

Sure, immigrants will do work that no-one else will do. There was even a movie about it - 'A Day Without Mexicans.'

Making loans accessible to millions of the previously unbankable customers is a noble goal. Getting them hooked to such loans isn't.

Nobody was ever going to tell me that I didn't belong on a football field. And nobody was ever going to tell me that I couldn't be great.

Nobody wants to see the old person at the club.

Even though my mother had told me growing up that, 'If you win, nobody cares what color you are,' that wasn't necessarily true in the N.F.L.

I'm just happy that as an African-American man, that 'Candyman' has once again been given the nod to enter people's consciousness.