Quotes About Inclusivity

remember to call them by neutral pronouns like "they" unless they asked me to use a gender. That was the polite thing to do.

I was certain about this: In the best new language, there would be no words for me or you. Those words have caused all the trouble started by the old languages. In any new language, there should only be we.

It is you humans who hate anything that differs from you, be it only by the shape of its ears. That's why you took our land from us, drove us from our homes, forced us into the savage mountains.

I consider waging war against other races idiocy.

Anyone who doesn't know other languages is handicapped

There is nothing worse than chauvinism underpinned by scholarship.

Children of elves, dwarves, halflings, gnomes, half-elves, quarter-elves and toddlers of mysterious provenance neither knew nor recognised racial or social divisions. At least, not yet.

My fitness trainer's English, my physio's English, some of my friends are English. I don't have a problem with English people at all.

don't give no rabbit's fart what race or type of creature you are; if we'd been invaded by queer, tap-dancing dragons wearing top-hats and breathing cabbage fire, they'd still come here for their centre of command.

As a leader it is your job to protect the missional integrity of the Jesus gathering to which you have been called. It is your responsibility to see to it that the church under your care continues as a gathering of people in process; a place where the curious,the unconvinced, the sceptical, the used-to-believe and the broken, as well as the committed, informed and sold-out come together around Peter's declaration that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God.

One of our pastors, John Hambrick, has a saying that we've adopted organization-wide. He says, "We walk toward the messes." In other words, we don't feel compelled to sort everything or everyone out ahead of time. We are not going to spend countless hours creating policies for every eventuality.

People who were nothing like him liked him. And Jesus liked people who were nothing like him.

It's a shame that so many churches are married to a designed-by-Christians-for-Christians-only culture. A culture in which they talk about the Great Commission, sing about the Great Commission, but refuse to reorganize their churches around the Great Commission.

As followers of Jesus, we should be known as people who like people who are nothing like us.

They have adjusted their style in order to worship with their kids. Shouldn't we be willing to adjust ours to reach their kids?

Don't be so concerned about keeping the folks you've got, that you neglect the folks you're trying to reach.

I think everybody should be nice to everybody.

I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.

The nature of the data we possess suggests we value each and every tradition rather than creating a dichotomy between the normative tradition and the others.

Did Christ not die for the entire world?" Paul asked. "For the cruel master as well as for the innocent child?

I am not here for women only, but also for women.

The Women's Sports Foundation holds a unique position in developing opportunities for girls and women of all abilities to be active whether recreationally or competitively, and I'm excited to help lead the organization to impact even more lives. It is an honor to continue to build the legacy created by Billie Jean King and all of our leaders.

The Knox family were all there, as neither George's Catholicism nor his Presbyterianism prevented him from supporting the vicar, who was a great friend.

honestly, I like everything, boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny.