Quotes About Inclusion

As hospitality demanded the invitation, courtesy demanded acceptance

When you've got too much religion that you can't mingle with people, that you're afraid of certain people, you've got too much religion. C. L. Franklin, from a 1955 sermon

If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.

Aucune folie n'est assez profonde pour vous exclure de la communauté des fumeurs.

What's important is that I know how much you worry about shit. And what's also important is that I know a big part of your worry is that, no matter what group of friends you're in, no matter how long you've known them, you always assume you're the least-wanted person there. The one everyone else could do without.

He was no longer invisible. They all saw him now. But he was further away than ever.

We would do what we must. The world is big. Surely there is a space in it for one like you and one like me.

The rest of us just have to live here, hovering around the edges, left out of it all, for the most part.

Claude Lévi-Strauss once observed that, "for the majority of the human species, and for tens of thousands of years, the idea that humanity includes every human being on the face of the earth does not exist at all. The designation stops at the border of each tribe, or linguistic

The anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss once observed that, 'for the majority of the human species, and for tens of thousands of years, the idea that humanity includes every human being on the face of the earth does not exist at all. The designation stops at the border of each tribe, or linguistic group, sometimes even at the edge of a village.

I am one of you. You are not alone. You are all beautiful to me.

What about me? Where's the story for people like me?

Cada uno se come una parte. diferente del cerdo —me había dicho—. Si quieres que te. acepten, haz lo mismo.» En diferentes lugares, diferentes decoros.

No soportaba oír música y no formar parte de ella. Es como ver a la mujer que amas acostándose con otro hombre.

At least they'll never get it," he said. "Who are they?" I asked. "Anyone who isn't us." he replied.

I'm an advocate for gay marriage. I have more gay friends than Carter has pills.

Welcome to the club." "Club? What club is that?" "The International Brotherhood of Lost Dogs. What else? We're letting you in as a certified, card-carrying member. Serial number zero zero zero zero." "I thought that was your number?" "It is. But it's your number, too. That's one of the beauties of the Brotherhood. Everyone who joins gets the same number.

Sometimes just making yourself at home is revolutionary.

Our teacher says we're supposed to be colorblind. That's hard to do if you can see color, isn't it?" "Yeah, I'd say so, but I think your teacher means don't make any assumptions based on color." "Cross on the green and not in between.

separate and not quite equal, but infinitely better off than ever before.

Blood in, blood out Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Minuo in, minuo sicco.

You can't force integration, boy. The people who want to integrate will integrate.

The "business as usual" agency has a board made up of white, middle-aged or older males working with a "from us to them" attitude. The "business as usual" church supports crosscultural missionaries, but these folks are all the same culture and ethnicity of the majority of the members of the church.

Where you live in the world should not determine whether you live in the world.