Quotes About Inclusion

In this partnership all men have equal rights; but not to equal things.

Any black or red man who could win admission to "the fellowship of the doers" was superior to the white man who failed. Roosevelt's long-term dream was nothing more or less than the general, steady, self-betterment of the multicolored American nation.

The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.

Imagine how aloneness could gradually be banished.

When that day of jubilee finally arrives, all of us will be there with you, walking, heads held high, crowns a-glitter, because we do have a right to be here.

I was sort of a half-breed of colonization, understanding everyone because I belonged completely to no one.

Ethnic differences are the very essence of cultural diversity and national creativity.

You have to be taught to recognize and care about differences, you have to be instructed who you really are; you have to learn how generations of dead people and their incomprehensible accomplishments made you the way you are; you have to define your loyalty to an abstraction-based herd that transcends your individuality.

The best way not to have people in your way is to let them into your heart.

Samintar." Everyone

You have to make everyone feel at home. That doesn't mean you're going to be soft on them – but you want them to feel that they belong.

We are all immigrants, a glorious confection of races and beliefs, united by the rock that we live on. As the years wash over us and new generations march into the future, family histories are subsumed into the greater narrative. We become, simply, Americans.

My fondest hope is that 'Roots' may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.

With the Internet, we can choose the very communities we want to be a part of.

To admit foreigners indiscriminately to the rights of citizens the moment they put foot in our country would be nothing less than to admit the Grecian horse into the citadel of our liberty and sovereignty.

To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.

Am I then more of an American than those who drew their first breath on American Ground?

I am just a tiny person in Africa, but there is a place for me, and for everybody, to sit down on this earth and touch it and call it their own.

There is room in history for all of us.

No student should be encouraged -- by anyone -- to change himself until he's "normal," a term that says everything and means nothing.

Social standing does not necessarily translate to social acceptance.

Being an outsider doesn't necessarily indicate any sort of social failing. We do not view a tuba player as musically challenged if he cannot play the violin.

Norman Kunc, who conducts workshops on inclusive education and non-coercive practices, points out that "what we call 'behavior problems' are often situations of legitimate conflict; we just get to call them behavior problems because we have more power" than children do. (You're not allowed to say that your spouse has a behavior problem.)

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.