Quotes About Inclusion

The free enterprise system does not leave people behind.

I remember being a young black kid in high school, I didn't think the establishment or the political system was for me. I didn't think the system was for me, and I know a lot of kids feel that way.

I condemn racism on all levels, whether personal or systemic.

There is no question that the Green Party has work to do in addressing racism, anti-Semitism, systemic discrimination in all its forms.

She complained there was no 'café au lait'-colored construction paper for her skin, or 'sixty-percent-cacao-chocolate' color for her eyes. I remember staring at her while these words came out of her mouth, and thinking, Your skin is light brown. Your eyes are dark brown. Why don't you just use brown, you idiot? Jay Stringer didn't complain about the paper, and neither did any of the other ten kids using brown.

Ethnic minorities were 10 times more likely than whites to eat at a table where they were the only representative of their race.

Never embrace a version of the gospel that doesn't require you to do life with someone who isn't like you.

These pages explore the beliefs, behaviors, and habits that drive leaders who make small groups a priority. These leaders share a common conviction that kids and teenagers need other adults besides their parents. They need other adults … who believe in God. who believe in them. and who give them a place to belong.

Among the gifts of serving others, then, is that we ourselves find our place of belonging.

Acceptance. It is the true thing everyone longs for. The one thing everyone craves. To walk in a room and to be greeted by everyone with hugs and smiles. And in that small passing moment, you truly know you're loved, needed, and accepted.

Diversity enriches the soul. It is at the very essence of the life experience."

Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.

You want to draw your readers into the world you've created, make them feel a part of it, make them forget where they are. And you can't do this effectively if you tell your readers about your world secondhand. You

The ideal human agreement is one in which distinctions of race and color and religion are totally disregarded; anyone helping to preserve those distinctions is postponing that ideal; and you are certainly helping to preserve them.

finally left the worst of the happy throng behind and made it to the Methodist grub-tent, having passed by the Baptists with the snooty feeling of a man-about-town who is in the know.

You are now bilingual, bicultural, and binational. You are not less. You are more.

My work as a whole is about excavating and shining a light on pieces of history that not only need to be seen and heard, but that can also add to the conversation about what's going on now.

People say, I'm tired of thinking about race, it's a drag. Yeah, well, welcome to my life! I don't care who you are. We have the time and the headspace for this stuff. The least you can do is take a moment.

Separation in culture and arts does nobody any favors except for the people in power. That's just it... So I feel like I'm in the business of challenging that narrative.

Is he one of us, or strictly NOCD? (Which, in case you don't know is shorthand for 'Not our class, dear'.)

Because we should always respect other nationalities, I have always tried to play them with dignity.

They're using a hundred-year-old system to choose their people while we respect a time-honored, hundred-thousand-year-old method of admitting members to the tribe. Cavemen and fellows in medieval artisan guilds worked no differently. They all based decisions on a newcomer's acceptance by an established group.

Because if you don't have someone to run out of town once in a while, how are you going to know you yourself belong there?

The profoundest points of New Testament Christology occur when the inclusion of the exalted Christ in the divine identity entails the inclusion of the crucified Christ in the divine identity, and when the christological pattern of humiliation and exaltation is recognized as revelatory of God, indeed as the definitive revelation of who God is.