Quotes About Inclusion

the figure of the disabled woman is best apprehended as a product of conceptual triangulation. She is a cultural third term, a figure constituted by the originary binary pair of the masculine figure and the feminine figure. Thus, the disabled female figure occupies an intragender position; that is, she is not only defined against the masculine figure, but she is imagined as the antithesis of the normative woman as well.

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why was I born with a different face, Why was I not born like the rest of my race? When I look each one starts! when I speak I offend Then I'm silent and passive and lose every friend.

Excitement wasn't the exact word he sought to describe the feelings of contentment, of satisfaction, of belonging to a community.

Since "healthy communities are able to recognize past mistakes," they went on to "pledge to work toward the common good in building a community where people of all races and cultural backgrounds are welcome to live and prosper.

No book can convey the depths of the black experience without including material from the oppressed group. Yet not one textbook in my original sample let African Americans speak for themselves.

Any telling of history requires choices as to what is included and what is left out and is therefore by definition an interpretation.

Over the years, we have discovered that when it comes to leaving no child behind, highly gifted students are the most likely to fall through the cracks in American classrooms.

All kids—low-achievers, high-achievers, and those in the middle—deserve to have their educational needs met.

We first answer these questions by saying that schools should not discriminate against gifted kids.

We also know that children learn best when surrounded by their intellectual peers.

They soon learned how difficult and hostile school can be for a child who is different.

On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provision for discourse.

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.

I want to be there when you get Cubbin. And I don't want to be left out of the television show either. Little people are sexy now. Have you seen Game of Thrones? We're hot.

In my father's scheme of things, there were Italians and then there was the rest of the world.

I was thrown into a community production of 'Bye Bye Birdie' or something when I was a kid. I wanted to just build the sets, but I wasn't allowed to just build the sets unless I auditioned for the play. So I auditioned for the play and was thrown into the chorus. During the course of that I fell in love with it, and I never really turned back.

Unlike people of my generation, my children and my grandchildren have grown up living with, knowing, people who were outwardly gay and lesbian. And they have learned that they're just like us... And when you see that they're just like us, the rationale for discrimination melts away.

Being of color in America by no means amounts to a constant barrage of negativity. However, unlike being white, being of color means one's race is a constant issue.

We should celebrate the fact that, unlike some countries in the world, the United States makes promises that we will never send any student away from our schools.

We develop sentiments that we are only going to work with people like us. But you don't build up a nation by working with people like you. You overcome a history of conflict by reaching out to people very much unlike you.

Sports provides the chance for the athlete, unlike the ordinary person, to open the door and meet people.

If we don't like modern Britain, then it is very unlikely that modern Britain will like us.