Quotes About Inclusivity

I like being a boy, but I also really like being a girl.

Being born gay, black, and female is not a revolutionary act. Being proud to be a gay black female is.

I think I would abolish schools which systematically inculcate sectarian beliefs.

I don't want to fit in. I want to make music that can reach out to people of all different ages and backgrounds and beliefs and turn us into one, groovin, 'Goodtimenation.'

Sitting in America, we never get to know the other side in any kind of believable way. We have so many movies about Iraq, Afghanistan, and this and that, but there is never a character from that side.

I'm the kind of actor who truly believes that every play is a company play.

The arts don't care what your background is. They belong to everyone.

I don't ever view myself as a straight country act, and I don't think the straight country acts view me as a straight country act, either - but I certainly belong to them.

It was always my belief that rock and roll belonged in the hands of the people, not rock stars.

I don't believe in mistakes. Everything belongs, and, as the homies say, 'It's all good.'

I feel like Zoom is not a part of Zoom anymore. Zoom belongs to the world now.

Freedom cannot be a responsibility that only belongs to some of us.

Music belongs to the people. To no one else. To no one else.

'Doctor Who' belongs to all of us. Everybody makes 'Doctor Who.'

Progress in America does not usually begin at the top and among the few, but from the bottom and among the many.

Right is of no sex—Truth is of no color—God is the father of us all, and all we are brethren.

Coolidge told the veterans: "I recognize the full and complete necessity of 100 percent Americanism, but 100 percent Americanism may be made up of many various elements.

Ah, what a stirring and a seething! Celt and Latin, Slav and Teuton, Greek and Syrian…black and yellow…how the great Alchemist melts and fuses them with his purging flame! Here shall they all unite to build the Republic of Man and the Kingdom of God….What is the glory of Rome and Jerusalem where all nations and races come to worship and look back, compared with the glory of America, where all races and nations come to labor and look forward!

We know instinctively," Jane Addams wrote, "that if we grow contemptuous of our fellows and consciously limit our intercourse to certain kinds of people whom we have previously decided to respect, we not only tremendously circumscribe our range of life, but limit the scope of our ethics.

In our finest hours, though, the soul of the country manifests itself in an inclination to open our arms rather than to clench our fists; to look out rather than to turn inward; to accept rather than to reject.

There is no Negro problem. There is no Southern problem. There is no Northern problem. There is only an American problem. And we are met here tonight as Americans—not as Democrats or Republicans—we are

Don't join the book burners," he said. "Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go into your library and read every book, as long as that document does not offend our own ideas of decency. That should be the only censorship.

His impulse," Winston Churchill had written of FDR in the mid-1930s, "is one which makes toward the fuller life of the masses of the people in every land.

Writing in 1783, George Washington had articulated what we like to think of as the American way on such things: "The bosom of America is open to receive not only the opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations and Religions.