Quotes About Inclusion

Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

We of alien looks or words must stick together.

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home

The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.

When I was a kid, we said that we were precluded from going to certain neighborhoods because of the color of our skin¦ Now the neighborhoods are the neighborhoods of ideas, youre not supposed to be there because ¦ of the color of your skin.

Nobody's free until everybody's free.

He treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

sometimes … sometimes you have to tell them who you are. What you really think. You have to make them see us.

Better I am poor in a country where I can feel at home. Where I am wanted, than to live like this.

One day she'll exist on paper in this country. She can sit on buses and take classes and get a job and never again feel that churning in her stomach if someone asks for ID.

Que la mayor prueba de afecto era presisamente demostrar que esa ausencia no le ponia en inferioridad de condiciones frente a los otros

When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.

It all made me realize I wasn't the only one who wasn't sure they belonged. There was no one right way to fit in--it seemed like everyone was finding their own place, even if that place was on the edge of things. Still, there had to be ways to make it easier.

Maar selfs in ons andersgeit soek ons ander mense wat op min of meer dieselfde manier as ons anders is. Ons bly nou eenmaal kuddediere.

Yes. Miss Halfwolf scares me a lot. But that doesn't make her a monster. Don't be like the Witches, Master Ren. They call us monsters because it makes it easier to hurt us. But monsters are people, too.

No one gets left behind, you know that.

Isn't that it, to be yourself and somehow, to belong?

Living in a diverse world—or leading a diverse work force—is more than a mental construct, a memorized list of cultural differences, or a willingness to be tolerant. It's about examining how well we function at the margins and interfaces of life, where divergent ways of being and believing meet and collide. (Kemper

A citizen, simply by virtue of being a citizen, is one of us. We have stood together to defend the country against foreign adversaries in the past. Now we must stand together at home to make sure that none of us faces the risk of being left behind. We're all Americans and we owe that to each other. That's what liberalism means.

Gone are the days when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. declared: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."48

Our world cannot be complete without you, and without hearing what you have to say. True justice cannot exist without compassion; compassion cannot exist without understanding. But no one will understand you unless you speak, and are able to speak clearly (Sister Janet to the students, page 155).