Quotes About Inclusion

Letting non-citizens vote jeopardizes our principles as a nation. They vote only for entitlement, not for their own responsibility as citizens.

I believe now that love is letting people in. Love is bigger than all of us.

There's this idea that when you say you're Muslim, that you're either all in or you're trying to escape it. I love the idea of gradations and levels, just like everybody else has.

Watch out, or I'm liable to put you in a story.

You can't be part of the unum, to a liberal. You always have to be a pluribus.

Equalities issues are a key part of the Liberal Democrats and under my leadership we would push for them at every opportunity - whether in government or not.

I know that when I was a children's librarian, that was about 1940, boys particularly asked where were the books about kids like us, and there weren't any at that time.

A black character is much more than just a black character; he's a character, period. So show the world as it is. Even with all your artistic license, you make a political choice.

For me, in some ways, my whole life is a bit performative and always has been - because I'm stared at and looked at everywhere I go.

Life is too short to exclude experiences. And that includes marriage.

I guess the more women are present and out there in life, the more their stories will be told. I don't know. Their stories have always been told on Lifetime.

If we're going to make a city everybody can live in for a lifetime, we need to make sure we are building and growing for everybody.

It's 'When We Rise,' not 'When Gay People Rise.' It's about how everyone benefits when we lift up any one group in this country.

When you lift up black women, you lift up entire communities and the entire country.

I would assume my father would support anything that lifted up and created opportunities for 'the least of these.'

I think it would be great if there were no age limit.

In the early '90s, there was such a limited idea of what you could see on TV.

I don't put limits on anybody.

Nobody looked like me when I was growing up. None of the kids were as big as me, or as serious as me, or listened to the same music.

If I had seen a black woman play Juliet as a little girl, my idea of my place in the world would have been totally different.

There are not very many opportunities for little people in the industry. There are small parts and character parts, but we don't get the girl-at-the-end-of-the-film kind of parts... but I was quite happy with what I was doing.

Everyone wants to be close to your team. You don't want to have guys that don't feel comfortable in the locker room.

When you're looking from the outside looking in, you don't know what's in the locker room until you get there.

London's not a white city. So why should our catwalks be so white?