Quotes About Inclusion

To be human is to be visible.

I think artists are scared to have same-gendered pronouns in their writing, and I don't think it's because they're scared to be out, because gay artists are visible, but they don't want to alienate an audience.

It is important that you're out, and it is important that you're visible.

We must do our part to make ourselves visible to the world. Let everyone see that being a queer parent of color is normal and happening right next door to them.

It is extremely important for trans people to be visible.

As a visible and outspoken trans woman myself, I know that it's rare not to have your trans-ness lead the way for you in public spaces.

One of the things that I wanted to do in all aspects of my life is to tear down barriers. And, I feel those barriers exist for any racialized person. They particularly exist for people who are very visible, so a visible minority or someone who expresses their faith visibly.

As a community, as a group of people as a society, Asian Americans have not always been visible, but we've always been present.

For the most part, there's not a ton of out and working trans comedians, or people who are visible.

Hindi cinema needs to make working women and women of substance more visible.

In China they don't mind getting their cameras out, but I try to go with the flow. In countries where there is not so much disability visible on the streets, they want to know who you are and what you are doing.

The ultimate vision is to instate in the Muslim world the notion of multiculturalism, which is part of our heritage and history, part of the fundamental, mainstream ideals of Islam.

The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it.

No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.

Shelley says some people were born on third base and some people were born outside the ballpark, and the journey to home plate ain't the same for all. Wouldn't it be better for everyone to, like, find a way to get everybody in the game?

Don't judge people by their kinfolk. —Dutch Callahan

You may not see it, but even the lowliest servant has value, purpose, worth. Everyone has a place and none of those places should be diminished.

I was the only student she'd taught who'd actually known any deaf people. Most of the students in my courses were there because they'd seen a movie or read a Helen Keller book.

We don't sign here, of course. We want to prepare these children to enter the normal world." She believed that.

But thinking back on all those times, I had this odd, inescapable feeling that society thought it was some kind of sin to be deaf.

From the first two-hour class on, I had not said a word. I wanted them to know a little bit of what it is like to be deaf: lost, confused, unable to communicate.

In fact, an alarming percentage of deaf children graduate high school with a third-grade reading ability.

And there is also a camp of compromise—those who favor "total communication," or signing while speaking in full sentences.

The oralists believe in speaking and lipreading without ever signing; and the manualists are pro-signing in American Sign Language (ASL).