Quotes About Inclusion

There is no reason why cricket shouldn't be the number one alternative to football. And at a time when there are obvious divisions in society, cricket has a great role to play in bringing people together from all sorts of diverse backgrounds and faiths.

Even for myself, Ive been lucky enough to walk around Glasgow with my family and you see all the different nationalities and different establishments - whether thats restaurants, businesses - and its obvious that people have come from all over the world to make this city a great city.

I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.

Obviously, no LGBT person should be denied the ability to be who they are because their boss disagrees.

When the time comes, they won't ask what kind of a Jew you are.

If you never speak in tongues, Jesus will still love you.

Otherness is what constitutes us.

There are countless poor and uneducated people around the world. The vast majority of them, if they think of America at all, don't want to kill us; they simply want to be here. Many, as we know from both legal and illegal immigration, want to come to the United States to partake in the opportunity that is every American's birthright. They have no interest in flying airplanes into buildings or putting on an exploding vest.

Jews are always strangers,' Harriet thought

I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself.

in fact what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind inside its teeming multitudes

what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind inside its teeming multitudes.

Firequencher raised his hand. I've been staying out of family conversations. Do I get credit for that?

Carn Carby left, and ender mentally added him to his private list of people who also qualified as human beings.

Ender mentally added him to his private list of people who also qualified as human beings.

I must rejoice that I am part of her, instead of resenting that I am not more of her.

Loneliness is at the heart of Ender's Game, and the reason it works so well is because it carries with it the firm assurance that even though Ender never feels himself to belong,the reader knows he does belong, that he is the ultimate insider even though he stands outside.

But most of those to whom Ender's Game feels most important are those who, like me, feel themselves to be perpetually outside their most beloved communities, never able to come inside and feel confident of belonging.

We are only human when we are part of a community. ... I tried to isolate you, but it could not be done. I surrounded you with hostility; you took most of your enemies and rivals and made friends of them. ... You were a part of them; they carried you inside them all their lives.

what cannot be shunned must be embraced.

We become one tribe because we say we're one tribe.

All boys? A few girls. They don't often pass the test to get in. Too many centuries of evolution are working against them.

And they apologized again. Back to business. Back to respect. And Ender realized that in their laughter, in their friendship, it had not occurred to them that he could have been included.

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can't get into it do that.