Quotes About Inclusivity

One measure of a civilization, in fact, is the percentage of misfits in its society.

The great dream of Judaism is not to raise priests, but a people of priests; to consecrate all men, not only some men.

We must remember that the people of all the States are entitled to all the privileges and immunities of the citizens of the several States. We should bear this in mind, and act in such a way as to say nothing insulting or irritating. I would inculcate this idea, so that we may not, like the Pharisees set ourselves up to be better than other people.

The more sects we have the better. They are all getting somebody in (to the Church) that the others could not: and even with the numerous divisions we are all doing tolerably well.

How this is possible is, first, by being, literally, several in a single body. "We are twelve in my body. We are packed like sardines." In other words, the being that I am exists each time in several modes—or, let us say, several beings, which, although sometimes mutually exclusive, are nevertheless inside one another.

They shouldn't leave things out. They just shouldn't. They have to paint it all, the whole thing, and they shouldn't be afraid of that. If they hold us tight enough, so tight we know they love us, it won't matter what they say. Their love will get us through it.

once awakened, a sense of justice is something not easily contained. It often crosses the boundaries of race, class, and gender.

The Boov are having seven magnificent genders. There is boy, girl, boygirl, girlboy, boyboy, boyboygirl, and boyboyboyboy." I

Nevertheless, every Nazi has Jewish ancestors. Every white supremacist has Middle Eastern ancestors. Every racist has African, Indian, Chinese, Native American, aboriginal Australian ancestors, as well as everyone else, and not just in the sense that humankind is an African species in deep prehistory, but at a minimum from classical times, and probably much more recently. Racial purity is a pure fantasy. For humans, there are no purebloods, only mongrels enriched by the blood of multitudes.

For humans, there are no purebloods, only mongrels enriched by the blood of multitudes.

We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.

Most people ignore most poetry because poetry ignores most people.

I think it's good to smile at everybody so that everyone knows you love everyone. It's good for human pacifism.

You're not supposed to have to be rich or lucky to have a chance to do great things. Opportunity is supposed to be for everyone. And that's why I'm a Democrat.

Books did not care who was reading them or whether one read them or not. All readers were equal, herself included. Literature, she thought, is a commonwealth; letters a republic.

Who is above literature? You might as well say one was above humanity.

Audiences shouldn't be homogenous before one even starts; it's the performance, even of a reading, that should weld them into a unit.

Hawai'i has often been called a melting pot, but I think of it more as a 'mixed plate'---a scoop of rice with gravy, a scoop of macaroni salad, a piece of mahi-mahi, and a side of kimchi. Many different tastes share the plate, but none of them lose their individual flavor, and together they make up a uniquely 'local' cuisine. This is also, I believe, what America is at its best---a whole greater than the sum of it's parts.

That's what libraries were for: to make sure that everybody had the same access to the same books everyone else did.

You could go multicoloured, I suppose. You could show your support for the gay, lesbian and transgender communities. The Rainbow Cleaver, perhaps? No? Too much? That's not your thing? Ah, that's a pity.

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

Der größte Fehler ist der, einen Mann ausschließlich als einen Mann zu behandeln oder eine Frau nur als eine Frau, denn sie alle haben Zugang zu vielen Rollen...

Fingers: Weve all got them and we shouldnt be embarrassed about them.

Pregnancy and birth knit womankind together. Help weave a gorgeous thread to add to the fabric. Be supportive. Be kind. Be wise. Be open.