Quotes About Inclusion

Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.

Latinos come from different countries, and they tend to segregate with only their country instead of embracing all the other countries, because in reality, all the Latinos are going through the same experiences of discrimination and racism.

It's great to be able to bring the best players from other countries and that they want to play in our league.

Here in Brazil, homophobia is everywhere. If Brazil looked up to good things that other countries do, it would become a better place. I'm not talking about homosexuals only, but for everything else.

I didn't know what gay was. There was no such thing when I was growing up. I knew I had crushes on boys, but I didn't think there was anything wrong with that until I started to hear about it from the other kids in school.

I lived in an all-black neighborhood, followed by an all-white one, and other kids in the always called me Mexican in both neighborhoods.

Honestly, I had no idea I was different from other kids until I started kindergarten. To my family, I was just Lizzie.

There is so much that is positive, wonderful even, about state schools. At a state school your kids will learn to live alongside and appreciate other kids from many diverse and different cultures.

Even from the age of about 6 years old, I was kind of made to feel different by other kids - you know, I was a quite pretty kid, and I got called 'girl' a lot, and 'woman' and all of that. And school is really not a place to be different.

I grew up with a special-needs brother, and the separation from other kids is so extreme. We've got to break down those barriers.

I have this concept that I will create a creche for old people. Yes, a creche, how when you go to work you drop kids to their creche and there they mingle with other kids and at the same time are in safe hands and you know they have been looked after.

People would call me Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan or whatever popular martial artist there was at that time. I also remember the other kids at the lunch table freaking out when I brought in Korean food.

My only agenda is to bring attention to otherwise ignored and shunned lives.

Since I have difficulty defining merit and what merit alone means - and in any context, whether it's judicial or otherwise - I accept that different experiences in and of itself, bring merit to the system.

I believe in family values, and I believe that we all ought to be able to have a family and marry if you want to. I don't think the government should be in that business of denying people the fundamental right to marry.

I think everybody ought to be allowed to be engaged in athletics at whatever level the audience will accept.

The next Bond ought to be a woman or, at least, a black actor.

I thought our community should have a deep dialogue to make black America better. I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.

This first-generation narrative keeps happening over and over and over again, whether it was Irish or Jewish or our community, South Asians, Japanese-Americans, Mexican-Americans. We've all gone through this sort of bridge, and it will continue to happen.

I don't agree with those in our community who think that, as gay people, we are special and should therefore keep ourselves isolated from certain straight-associated thinking or conventions.

United Way works to create a safe and healthy home for everyone in our community.

We need to look marginalized people in our community in the eye and listen to their stories of struggle, heartache and impossibility.

My motivation is, in part, a bit of angst that comes from feeling like I don't belong, that our generation doesn't belong.

When you show people on the big screen that could be our next-door neighbour or our cousin, it does have an impact on our lives.