Quotes About Inclusion

Art amplifies voices on the margins-the views and opinions that power silences.

It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age.... sympathy as a fine art is backward in the growth of progress.

For writers from working-class families, the making of art is cultural disenfranchisement, for we do not belong in literary circles and our writing rarely makes it back home.

I'm always interested in people who are not orientated in art circles to become part of it.

Art feels like it has this frame, and it's either outside or inside.

Diversity is crucial to art and crucial to cinema. That's a very strong European statement: All people should be able to have images of themselves.

Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.

If anything, I have witnessed the ways my art travels, or is rendered more accessible, when sanctioned by or connected to white artists.

Being totally inclusive is essential for the outcome to possess any true value

In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent.

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Since independence, the census in Botswana has never asked about ethnic heterogeneity, because in Botswana everyone is Tswana.

Inclusive economic institutions led to the development of inclusive markets, inducing a more efficient allocation of resources, greater encouragement to acquire education and skills, and further innovations in technology.

Markets can be dominated by a few firms, charging exorbitant prices and blocking the entry of more efficient rivals and new technologies. Markets, left to their own devices, can cease to be inclusive, becoming increasingly dominated by the economically and politically powerful. Inclusive economic institutions require not just markets, but inclusive markets that create a level playing field and economic opportunities for the majority of the people.

Solamente cuando muchos individuos y grupos tienen voz en las decisiones y el poder político para sentarse en la mesa, empieza a tener sentido la idea de que todos deben ser tratados con justicia.

Coming out was so difficult until millions of other men and women came out. Then it got a lot easier

Knowledge is a basic human right. Equal access to all possible human experiences is a basic human right.

It was no longer exotic to have a gay presidential candidate. In fact, since the advent of the Indiana mayor—never president but now a senator—no presidential election had been without one. Though, to be sure, every gay candidate had been in a certain mold—

Let's secure the border, figure out who is here illegally, and offer them a pathway to citizenship. Likewise, let's take in new immigrants in numbers that will help our economy, rather than make them reliant on the citizens who are already here.

The lie behind the buzzword of 'diversity' could not be made more clear: if you don't conform, then you don't count as 'diverse,' no matter what your personal background.

There is no worse flaw in man's character than that of wanting to belong.

You do not understand -- no accomplishment overcomes the stigma of being different. [...] I try not to think about it and cannot eat my supper or nothing. I didn't understand it at first. But now I do. You are not different in the way difference is acceptable but in another, bigger way.