Quotes About Inclusion

Some would take nothing, like Perdiccas; whose inclusion suggests, in spite of Ptolemy, that he did the right thing at Thebes. "What are you keeping for yourself?" he asked. "Hope," said Alexander, to which Perdiccas' prophetic answer was, "That I'll share.

He kept telling me I was queer, and I didn't like it. The word, I mean. Shutting you away, somehow; roping you off with a lot of people you don't feel much in common with, half of whom hate the other half anyway, and just keep together so that they can lean up against each other for support.

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

Marybeth Gasman

The political correctness of diversity as a core value essentially cheats some children out of their right to be fully engaged in American society.

I like to go to parties where I know everyone. How are you going to have fun with people you don't know?

Soy ciudadano del universo"».

It is a great moment in every freak's life when he or she finds out that at least they are not the only one.

I like looking for myself in the whitest of pages. I like finding evidence of myself there, after being told my footprints did not exist on that sand. I think the work of the great white writers is important, but I think it's most important when it's negotiating me and my people, because I am as arrogant and selfish a reader as any other.

Okay, here's the secret. It's not really a secret, but I'll frame it to you as one. The same people who despise you for identifying as mixed? Those are the same people who, when you do identify as black, despise you for not being black enough. And there's nothing you can actually do to be black enough, for them. Because it's not really how you act that they despise. It's you. Your very existence." She

Everybody thinks that equality comes from identifying people, and that's not where equality comes from.

Are you someone who watches life, or someone who participates?

And also, of course, there is the ultimate, all-important question: does it have a dog in it? (This book, by the way, does indeed have a dog in it, and this fact would very much excite a human but unfortunately does nothing for you.)

do like you,' said Miika, in his quiet mouse language, 'even though you are not a dairy product.

After all, I looked like them. Maybe this was another human trait. Their ability to turn on themselves, to ostracize their own kind. If that was the case, it added weight to my mission. It made me understand it better.

Intellectual diversity" in a major news outlet means "someone from both parties." You will connect with one or the other. It doesn't matter which one.

Therefore, when we speak of ourselves as divided into Barbarians, Philistines, and Populace, we must be understood always to imply that within each of these classes there are a certain number of aliens, if we may so call them,??persons who are mainly led, not by their class spirit, but by a general humane spirit, by the love of human perfection

There is s no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else. We are a nation, not a hodge-podge of foreign nationalities. We are a people, and not a polyglot boarding house. Theodore Roosevelt

The gospel excludes none who do not exclude themselves.

A civilization is judged by how it treats the vulnerable.

Philosophy: circles that include one another.

The doctrine cannot receive minorities, but neither can it reject them, because minorities are the salt of the Earth!

One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

Mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.