Quotes About Inclusion

As the researchers noted, single people are more willing to live in mixed neighborhoods, but people with children seek homogeneity.84

Feeling valued and known are also part of this belonging. If a family claims you as their own but you don't really feel that they know you or see you for who you are, you'll feel like an outsider within your own family.

There is no magic number of immigrants, just as there is no perfect mix of high-skilled, low-skilled, relatives, and refugees. What is essential is that America welcome those who are here and remain receptive to the gifts others can bring, whether they come with distinguished degrees or calloused hands.

Since 2008, the United States has attracted more Asians than Latin Americans, and nearly half of the newcomers, like Rosalie, have college degrees. Every corner of America has an immigrant like her.

Instead of thinking I can pay people from Kansas less than people from New York, you should think I can get amazing people from Kansas and make them feel valued and well

You have to understand that we're basically a company of misfits and people who didn't fit in anywhere else," he proclaimed. "That's what makes the company so great. We were all lucky to find the place where we belonged.

When I was a little kid I used to play with guys twice my age, so, I was the last one picked, so if I picked I knew that I had to get the ball to the scorer if I wanted to stay on the court, so that was pretty much my job.

Some are born Welsh. Some achieve Welshness. I am going to thrust myself upon Wales.

The worst thing is not to figure in a book at all, when there was a possibility of doing so.

I've been graded, rated, and ranked. Coached, screened, and scored. I've been picked first, picked last, and not picked at all. And that was just kindergarten.

What feels like a family to those on the inside can feel like a clique to those on the outside.

Ask him where black gay and lesbian people go who believe in God with all their heart when we're not welcome in our churches. Not only in Denver and Atlanta, but all over this country. Ask him where we go to be nurtured and express our faith. Where do we go for forgiveness?

Both Jamie and Claudia had acquired a talent for being near but never part of a group. (Some people, Saxonberg, never learn to do that all their lives, and some learn it all too well.)

I want all the books on the shelves. I want the books with dinosaur words like nigger that show the skeletons in our national closet. I want books with the word cunt as well as the word kike. Words don't scare me. Suppressing them does.

Mrs. Olinski was the first teacher Epiphany ever had who taught from a wheelchair.

When instead of acting against a situation, you merge with it, the solution arises out of the situation itself.

Unlike egoic wanting, which creates opposition in direct proportion to the intensity of its wanting, enthusiasm never opposes. It is non-confrontational. Its activity does not create winners and losers. It is based on inclusion, not exclusion, of others.

Cleverness pursues its own little aims. Intelligence sees the larger whole in which all things are connected. Cleverness is motivated by self-interest, and it is extremely short-sighted. Most politicians and businesspeople are clever. Very few are intelligent. Whatever is attained through cleverness is short-lived and always turns out to be eventually self-defeating. Cleverness divides; intelligence includes.

If you are an LGBT+ person and you come out, you have to go through your knight's quest to create ground for yourself, to create a space for yourself, to stand there and say, "I exist. I have no reason to feel guilt or shame. I am proud to exist, and while I'm not perfect, I deserve to exist in society just like anyone else.

Even though America loves baseball, (American) football, and basketball, I feel it is the ultimate American game, really, because it's a pure meritocracy, and that is what America was designed as.

In that little party there was not one who would desert another; yet we were of different countries, different colours, different races, different religions--and one of us was of a different world.

There were certain things that had to be done, and if done at all, done handsomely and thoroughly; and one of these, in the old New York code, was the tribal rally around a kinswoman about to be eliminated from the tribe.

Mr. and Mrs. Wetherall's circle was so large that God was included in their visiting-list.

What did it matter where she came from, or whose child she was, when love was dancing in her veins?