Quotes About Inclusion

A simple way to take the measure of a country is to look at how many want in . . . and how many want out.

Our tolerance is part of what makes Britain Britain. So conform to it, or don't come here.

Tony Blair's response when asked by one of his Parliament members why he believes so much in America: "A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in.. And how many want out.

Jesus never says to the poor: 'come find the church', but he says to those of us in the church: 'go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned.

Keed, ya ever feel like you were in the circus?" But before Grant could answer, he was startled by Babe's next words. "I do. All the time. It's the circus, and I'm one of the freaks.

If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.

I'm all for same-sex marriage.

Love and kisses to those too old and too young to come to the party.

I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.

folks generally fear what's different and unknown to them.

When you spend any time at all paying attention to the proclivities of the natural world, you realize that nature has no problem including in its sorority the dead, dying, and ailing as fully as the lovely, healthy, and whole.

The Lord is my Shepherd and he knows I'm gay.

No!" Kinkajou cried. "We're eating together! You haven't even finished your hairy smelly carcass thing! Sit!

I figured maybe I'd start by making friends with some other tribes first and gradually work my way back around to the NightWings, but you're hardly a NightWing at all, so that's OK, then." Moon winced. "Hardly a NightWing at all" was essentially what she'd been hearing in the NightWings' thoughts about her for months. It was a little brutal to hear someone just say it out loud.

Moon, this is Tamarin. Tamarin, Moon is our new best friend. She's super funny. Moon, can Tamarin touch your face?

It's time to prove that you really do belong in this prophecy.

visiting merchant RainWings or MudWings were sequestered from the NightWings instead of being invited to their parties and festivals.

No one had made fun of his odd talons in years, not since his first month in the wingery. He'd always worked hard to prove

Hardly a NightWing at all

like the way visiting merchant RainWings or MudWings were sequestered from the NightWings instead of being invited to their parties and festivals.

I came to that wooden marching band. I stopped and looked. There was a trumpet, trombone, clarinet, and drum. Birds don't live alone, I told myself. They live in flocks. Like people. People are always in a group. Like that little wooden band.

Attacking an outsider makes them all insiders.

But really it's condescending and patronizing not to make fun of someone because they're old or stupid or crippled or morbidly obese. Banged up people don't want your pity. They just want to be treated like everyone else. Mockery, when done without prejudice or discretion, can be a form of respect. It's the closest we'll ever come to true equality.

The importance of minority does not reside in the fact of its relative exclusion from the majority but in the political potential of its divergence from the norm.