Quotes About Inclusion

No pido tolerancia porque me parece una boludez. [...] La tolerancia es el prejuicio pero más light. Pedir tolerancia es aceptar que algo estás haciendo mal.

90% of Deaf people who marry choose a Deaf partner. By contrast, most people with disabilities do not see it as a priority or even desirable to marry within the group. 14

All we want, whether we are honeybees, ponderosa pines, coyotes, human beings, or stars, is to love and be loved, to be accepted, cherished and celebrated simply for being who we are. Is that so very difficult?"—DERRICK JENSEN, AMERICAN AUTHOR AND ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST

I had assumed Herr Neuhoff had taken me in only to help the show, and perhaps as a favor to an old family friend. His kind of courage was boundless, though, and he would not have turned away a person in need, whether a star performer or a simple laborer or a child such as Theo with no skills at all. It was not about the circus or family connections, but human decency.

I was adopted into the Muchquauh, the Bear Clan, of the Muhheconneok people when I reached manhood. The grannies got so tired of my bein' forever at their fires eatin' their food that they decided to make me part of the family so they could quit treatin 'me like a guest and send me out to fish.

I promise you'll never be alone again, Amalie. My home is yours now. My family is your family.

When did your family come to the US?" Joaquin bit back a grin. "We didn't. The United States came to us." Mia's brow furrowed in confusion. "What do you mean?" "My family has been living in Colorado since before this was a state or even a US territory. After the Mexican-American war, the border shifted south, making the San Luis Valley part of the United States. As my grandma likes to say, 'We didn't move. The border moved over us.

Some kids prefer to engage with characters who are dealing with, say, bullying, gender identity, and racism outside the confines of the all-too-real world readers themselves live in.

We're stuck on this image of gay women as masculine and gay men as feminine, and we refuse to recognize that they look just like you and me. The black community is going to have to recognize that condemning these guys because they're gay is wrong.

Çok, çok olduklar? ölçüde, "kendini evinde hissetmeme" duygusunu paylaÅŸanlar ve asl?nda bu deneyimi kendi toplumsal ve politik pratiklerinin merkezine yerleÅŸtirenlerden oluÅŸur.

Know your worth, girls. You're not lucky to be at the party, the party is lucky to have you. Apply as needed to relationships, jobs, and family.

Alice Kaplan is a teacher of French language and literature, and she has done this kind of remembering in a book called French Lessons. "Why do people want to adopt another culture?" she asks as she summarizes her journey into teaching and into life. "Because there's something in their own they don't like, that doesn't name them."5

No habit of the heart is more crucial to making "We the People" a reality than extending hospitality to those who appear alien to us.

However, its ultimate motivation is fanatics' hostility to the principle of an open society in which formal equality is recognized for everyone.

If I could take all my parts with me when I go somewhere, and not have to to say to one of them, 'No, you stay home tonight, you won't be welcome,' because I'm going to an all-white party where I can be gay, but not Black. Or I'm going to a Black poetry reading, and half the poets are anti-homosexual or thousands of situations where something of what I am cannot come with me. The day all the different parts of me can come along, we would have what I would call a revolution.

Fact is, blatant heterosexuals are all over the place. Supermarkets, movies, on your job, in church, in books, on television every day and night, every place - even in gay bars. & they want gay men & women to go hide in the closets - So to you straight folks i say - Sure, i'll go if you go too but i'm polite so - after you.

The best part of being married is that now when we walk down the street, people won't just see two guys and a kid, they'll have to see a FAMILY.

It is hard to accept being different, hard to have people avoid looking at you, and still believe in yourself.

If you make my children, make any child, feel bad for who they are, I will teach you why people fear mama grizzlies more than papa grizzlies.

taught that people are not to 'be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

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He noticed, without surprise, that the two cats had come along, even though he had not specifically included them in the transportation spell. Cats were like that.

Sometimes we don't hold hands just so people don't stare. But sometimes- SOMETIMES- you just have to hold on.

I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.