Quotes About Inclusion

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Let us not act out of fear and misunderstanding, but out of the values of inclusion, diversity, and regard for all that make our country great.

If non-white groups continue to advance race-based interests, is it wise for whites to continue to act as if they have none?

I NOW KNOW WHAT JOE MEANT WHEN HE ALWAYS SAID THAT HIS PARENTS WOULD'VE LOVED ME.

Desdemona had learned early in life that the world was divided into two groups, those who loved the theater and barbarians.

she felt a warmth towards him, and as she had done many times before to another man she remembered only vaguely, the little girl put her arms around the crippled man's neck, pulled his head down to her and rested her cheek against his.

But the old cripple never knew the joy of cradling a child in his own arms.

She realized how much she had missed the company of friendly people who behaved in a normal way.

I hope that gay gentleman will be safe.

There are voices and they must be heard.

Truth for anyone is a very complex thing. For a writer, what you leave out says as much as those things you include. What lies beyond the margin of the text? The photographer frames the shot; writers frame their world.

you act out what it feels like to be the one who doesn't belong. And you act it out by trying to do to others what has been done to you.

I saw a lot of working class men and women - myself included - living a deeper, more thoughtful life than would have been possible without the church... The sense of belonging to something big, something important, lent unity and meaning.

Heterosexual choice is allowed to be the background of a writer's life; its wallpaper. So is maleness. And whiteness. Step out of that and you will be called a feminist writer, a lesbian writer, a gay writer, a woman writer. A black writer. You will never be called a heterosexual writer or a male writer or a white writer. Those signifiers are absorbed into the single word 'writer'.

Friendship is like the color black, it goes wit everything.

I instinctively decided that I would prove that I wasn't different, that it should not be odd to hear me speaking English. From that day forward I lived with this double impulse:the urge to disappear and the desperate desire to be accepted

The world seemed divided into girls with boyfriends and girls without them.

We need diversity in our population to make it work.

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.

It's a very good thing for students also to be exposed to people who aren't film students or film scholars but who work in the world of film.

I spent most of my career, including my time at McKinsey, never acknowledging that I was a woman. And, you know, fast forward - I'm 43 now - fitting in is not helping us.

We also have to be honest about the fact that not everyone who seeks to join our country will be able to successfully assimilate. Sometimes it's just not going to work out.

I always work with refugees and I think they are the most amazing people and it's a privilege to spend time with them, so I will always.