Quotes About Inclusion

Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.

Don't let anyone tell you that great things can't happen in America... Barriers can come down. Justice and equality can win.

I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.

SEAL training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered but your will to succeed. Not your color, not your ethnic background, not your education and not your social status.

It's always weird being the only white person in a group. It feels like everyone's looking to me for guidance.

Through embracing the diversity of humans beings, we will find a sure way to true happiness.

The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.

The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let's continue to move forward.

If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different, I'd rather be completely #$%^&^& mental.

Even prostitutes, alcoholics, embezzlers - I won't rehearse the whole catalogue - need health insurance.

When I go in to see people - and I sell an occasional ad now - I never say, 'Help me because I am black' or 'Help me because I am a minority.' I always talk about what we can do for them.

How are we going to get rid of racism? Stop talking about it!

No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.

The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.

The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all people should experience.

Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.

This being Black History Month, I would like to ask people to celebrate the similarities and not focus on the differences between people of color and not of color.

History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.

What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.

A prime part of the history of our Constitution is the story of the extension of constitutional rights to people once ignored or excluded.

There is room in history for all of us.

For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community — connectors and openers, not untouchable stars.

In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race have not all participated in one culture.