Quotes About Inclusion

India will have to hang down her head in shame if even one person is left who is said in any way to be untouchable.

No one can be considered untouchable on political grounds.

I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.

It's not unusual for socio-economic, even racial or ethnic, groups to cluster.

The funny thing is, when I ask people with dark skin if they would change their color, they tell me no, and when I ask women if they would rather be men, they tell me no, and I get the same response when I ask people with unusual anatomies if they would take a magic pill to erase their unusual features.

I remember while I was at school some of my Muslim friends talked about a handful of people spoiling things in every culture. Hatred or hurt or pain isn't specific to a religion. I think it's a matter of acceptance. The one thing the world has to accept is everybody is different. What is normal to us is different and unusual to somebody else.

At the end of the day, 'My Deaf Family' is about a typical family that all of us can identify with but told from an unusual and what I believe will be a fascinating perspective.

There were so many groups that I had in college, but I was always the solo singer. But what made it so unusual back in the day was that I was a black girl playing with all these white musicians, and I was also singing rock music on top of it.

What is unusual is not always threatening. What is different is not necessarily strange.

The military is a microcosm of American society, so it really is not unusual that they would have Klan people and white supremacy people connected to them.

It's not unusual for me to find that I'm the only female journalist of color in the front row during some of the briefings.

When we belong to a community and learn things that are no way related to our society, we live as unwanted entities in that society.

Announcing a diversity initiative, or making it a cause, exerts unwanted pressure.

I have an unwavering commitment to inclusion and diversity.

When I was a child, growing up on a council estate in the northeast of England, I imbibed enough of the background racial tensions of the late 1970s and 1980s to feel profoundly unwelcome in Britain.

We all must make hatemongers unwelcome in our towns and communities. And we must stand by the heroes in this struggle, the police and county prosecutors who stand up to the extremists.

Now, I can admit that as a young boy growing up in Florence, I couldn't have understood the pain that some of our neighbors felt when they looked at our flag - a pain that made many feel unwelcome and unwanted.

When we talk about communities, we seldom discuss the margins. But for every person nestled comfortably in the bosom of a community, there is someone else on the outskirts, feeling ambivalent. Ambiguous. Excluded. Unwilling or unable to come more fully into the fold.

I've always felt, as a person, that I wanted to make people feel included and loved because I think at some point in all of our lives, we've felt not included and unworthy, especially in terms of appearances.

The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.

Having diversity around the board room, the executive table, and up and down our stores is really important.

I get along very well with the cast of '30 Rock.' I guess I bring a certain quirkiness to the show as well. I'm just thankful they keep asking me. I didn't think I was going to be asked back so every time they say, 'We want you back,' I'm screaming. I'm jumping up and down and screaming.

I'm glad that I had the upbringing I did where I was just part of what everyone else was a part of. And prom and all that.

It's always been important for me to do things in the community, it's part of my upbringing.