Quotes About Inclusion

There is no them and us. There is only us." Harvey Jackins

I want to deal with somebody who comes from another country to the United States and has a family that comes. I don't care if it's a black family from Jamaica or a Hispanic family from Mexico. These issues need to be dealt with, but they need to be dealt with in the entertaining way.

What kind of good deeds? Like Girl Scouts? Because I got kicked out of Brownies and they won't give me another chance to keep my clothes on at camp.

Someday, my young friend, you'll find out that girls are actually people too. Just like you and me.

We were the new people here. We weren't part of their group. We had to prove ourselves.

Let's hope that very soon it won't matter whether we're red, black, tan, yellow, white…male or female. Or whether we believe in the White Buffalo Woman, the teachings of Buddha, Allah or God.

A community is like a family," she told him, "and every family has a few odd ducks. The important thing to remember is that they're still family.

Wider ranges of normal make the world a better place for everyone.

You have to help him see that if he's disappearing from the world, that's too high a price to pay for fitting in. He has to see how 'You shouldn't push even though you want to' isn't the same as 'You shouldn't wear a dress even though you want to.

You have to help him unlearn it. You have to help him see that if he's disappearing from the world, that's too high a price to pay for fitting in.

For my child, for all our children, I want more options, more paths through the woods, wider ranges of normal, and unconditional love. Who doesn't want that? I know this book will be controversial, but honestly? I keep forgetting why.

if he's disappearing from the world, that's too high a price to pay for fitting in.

She had no idea what rung she occupied now, being not quite a servant yet not the same as well-bred people. But she didn't think she would like to be in society.

until we allow not only elephants, but all living creatures their place in the sun, we can never be whole ourselves.

You must protect people who have no social clout because the health of a congregation is measured by its ability to tolerate dweebs.

What do you mean you don't believe in homosexuality? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary.

Cook tiene razón cuando dice que las mejores compañías de América son las más diversas, y Apple está en camino de tener una fuerza laboral más diversa. Los avances son lentos

Japan will never change. It will never ever integrate gaijin, and my darling, here you will always be a gaijin and never Japanese. Book 3, p467

We grow up with white images all the time, in TV, in movies, in books. It's everywhere; you can't get around it. The white world surrounds us. What do white people see of black people? Look at the shit they have us do in movies: "Right on, jive turkey!"

These are his people, this congregation of misfits, crack addicts, and drunks, the unshaven, unwashed, unemployed, and unwanted.

It is always terrible to be told to go play with people one doesn't know...

Increased immigration and diversity are not only inevitable, but over the long run they are also desirable. Ethnic diversity is, on balance, an important social asset, as the history of my own country demonstrates.

Every color I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other.

Disability is something imposed on top of our impairments by the way we are unnecessarily isolated and excluded from full participation in society