Quotes About Inclusion

To work effectively as an agent of change in a pluralistic society, it is necessary to be able to connect with people different from oneself.

There will always be people who challenge the idea that you belong, but it's important to work hard, to focus on yourself, and prove that you belong in this space of high-level athletics.

Everybody counts, everybody deserves a chance, everybody has a responsible role to play and we all do better when we work together.

I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.

All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.

Men and women are like right and left hands: it doesn't make sense not to use both.

Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society.

I think that is something that I always like in my work - the sense of inclusion rather than the sense of otherness.

In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color.

To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.

If there is any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's ok to be different.

We, Russia, are prepared to work with others. I am convinced that stability and security in Europe cannot be considered without taking Russia into account.

I hope that as my career continues I get to create and work on more LGBT projects and bring LGBT storytelling into more mainstream media!

We haven't done enough work to encourage minorities to strive to make movies. Hollywood is a place full of white male directors - there are many good ones. We just haven't nurtured our voices.

I would hope that racism is something that just does not work in this day and age, but I know otherwise.

The simple act of recognizing diversity in corporate life helps us to connect the great variety of gifts that people bring to the work and service of the corporation.

Those who are excluded from meaningful work are, by an large, excluded from meaningful play.

On this important anniversary, we must remember that while we have come a long way in eliminating barriers, critical work remains to ensure all Americans can live up to their full potential.

And I always like to stress, it's not a quota, not a set-aside, it's not about race, it's about giving opportunities to demonstrate their abilities to do work with the Federal Government.

If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

The American work environment has to change, not the women. We should be recognizing that what women are not fitting into is a very narrow, male-dominated workplace of the 1950s.

The old appeals to racial, sexual and religious chauvinism to rabid nationalist fervor, are beginning not to work.

Every race will have disagreements amongst themselves, but we must put aside our differences, and work together for the advancement of that race" Sandra Forsythe

I'd work to make it hip again to spend time in our fabled and fabulous land. But with a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish mother, I would probably be better suited as mayor of New York.