Quotes About Inclusivity

Like many idle and stupid questions, this proved worth thinking about, for I realized with thunderous emphasis how little Gayness or straightness mattered in human terms: what did matter, in the moral dimension, jumped out at me like a chord in Beethoven — everybody at the party manifested love, care, kindness and support to an almost superhuman degree. These people all loved Don and they exemplified the compassion that, when it appears, makes humans noble and admirable creatures.

4. Accept this book, if not in whole at least in general outlines. Assume you have been brainwashed. Try to learn as much from every human you meet about their separate reality-tunnel and see how much of it you can use to make your reality-tunnel bigger and more inclusive. In other words, learn to listen.

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense.

As one old gentleman put it, Son, I don't care if you're stark nekkid and wear a bone in your nose. If you kin fiddle, you're all right with me. It's the music we make that counts.

San Francisco seems to be the last sanctuary for the rootless in its tolerance for every form of lifestyle.

If they come from another culture, it is all the more important to understand this culture from within their experience.

The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent - I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world

Why can't they figure it out that women take more time and need more stalls? You know why, he said. Because men are the ones who design these things, that's why.

People who are skilled at dialogue do their best to make it safe for everyone to add their meaning to the shared pool—even ideas that at first glance appear controversial, wrong, or at odds with their own beliefs. Now, obviously, they don't agree with every idea; they simply do their best to ensure that all ideas find their way into the open.

Prinsip Baba dalam menyelenggarakan pesta adalah: Bukan pesta kalau kau tidak mengundang semua orang di seluruh dunia.

A major part of sustainability is social justice, here and everywhere. Think of it this way: justice is a technology. It's like a software program that we use to cope with the world and get along with each other, and one of the most effective we have ever invented, because we are all in this together. When you realize that acting with justice and generosity turns out to be the most effective technology for dealing with other people, that's a good thing.

Everyone was equal there. Men, women, children, and people you couldn't say what they were. All the various skin tones, and wherever you came from before, it didn't matter. In this new place you made it all new, and people were just people, meant to be equal, and to treat each other respectfully at all times. It

Så här uttryckte Publius Terentius Afer det för mer än tvåtusen år sedan: Jag är människa: inget mänskligt är mig främmande. Och det är en identitet som bör kunna förena oss alla.

came to eat the corn too, so in a short time there

You have some queer friends, Dorothy, she said. The queerness doesn't matter so long as they're friends, was the answer.

The queerness doesn't matter, so long as they're friends.

I think that I've developed very, very good relationships over the last little while with the African-American community. I think you can see that.

You can create an intimate community of about 20 or 25 people, and beyond that you're into a different kind of relationship.

I believe in the religion of Love, whatever direction its caravans may take, for Love is my religion and my faith.

In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion.

Each person is sacred, no matter what his or her culture, religion, handicap, or fragility. Each person is created in God's image; each one has a heart, a capacity to love and to be loved.

I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.

Western dictionaries define secularism as absence of religion but Indian secularism does not mean irreligiousness.It means profusion of religions.