Quotes About Inclusion

Then came the time to let the world, into my world.

We must learn about difference for difference to become the normal.

Our Fiji today is a new Fiji where individual freedom is protected and not a Fiji solely for Fijians. Wise decisions from this august house will promote multiracial harmony and true friendship.

Why should only a few people be freed and not others when we are all serving under the same law?

Differences can be a strength.

it's good to have female or minority role models. But the important thing is to have mentors who care about you, and they come in all colors.

Translated 'Non omnia possumus omnus' as 'No possums allowed on the omnibus.

The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.

I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life.

There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.

Without the presence of black people in America, European-Americans would not be "white"-- they would be Irish, Italians, Poles, Welsh, and other engaged in class, ethnic, and gender struggles over resources and identity. (p. 107-108)

Strange is loneliness; it still longs to have something to belong to, some group, some aggregate.

I remembered Father's words to the Gestapo chief in The Hague: "I will open my door to anyone in need. . . ." No one in the city was in greater need than its feeble-minded.

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

Kurt Cobain] had a lot of German in him. Some Irish. But no Jew. I think that if he had had a little Jew he would have [expletive] stuck it out.

Al elegir a sus amigos, Jesús se rodeaba de los solitarios, los quebrantados, los ignorados por la sociedad. Dios te está llamando a formar parte de su iglesia, a ser su iglesia. Si no te consideras lo suficiente bueno, eres exactamente la persona que él está buscando.

When he chose friends, Jesus surrounded himself with the lonely, the broken, and the overlooked. God is calling you to be a part of his church, to be his church. If you don't feel like you're good enough, then you're exactly who he's looking for.

Someone said that if you're lonely at the top, it's because you didn't take anyone with you.

I grew up on the South Side of Chicago, north Beverly. It was cool, everybody's cool on the block.

I bid you a Jew.

Just trying to blend in. That's the way of the world." "Well, that's the way of America, at least," my mom said.

We're the unknown Americans, the ones no one even wants to know, because they've been told they're supposed to be scared of us and because maybe if they did take the time to get to know us, they might realize that we're not that bad, maybe even that we're a lot

The common denominator all Latinos have is that we want some respect. That's what we're all fighting for.

Reconciliation is often assumed to mean white institutions adding or including persons of color but never transforming the central identity from white (and male) to a truly inclusive human identity.