Quotes About Inclusivity

There's people I love. But there's so many other kinds of love, too. And people act so hateful to every kind but their own.

our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.

we've got the whole rest of the world over there, other than people, which are only one thing.

Curiosity is the best antidote to prejudice... Learn to see all humankind in its maddening, glorious complexity.

me, and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God." Please, believe me, it's the baptism and the spirit of love behind it that counts, and not the man that does it, or where it's done. We need neither a church nor a font

We must invent overnight, figuratively speaking, another kind of civilization, one more cognizant of limits, less greedy, more compassionate, less bigoted, more inclusive, less exploitive.

But the message was not only for Jews. It was for all people, Jew and gentile. And it came to gentiles apart from observing the Jewish law. Thus, to be members of God's covenantal people, it was not necessary for gentiles to become Jews. They did not need to be circumcised, observe the Sabbath, keep kosher, or follow any of the other prescriptions of the law. They needed only to believe in the death and resurrection of the messiah Jesus. This was an earth-shattering realization for Paul.

And so Christianity was the only evangelistic religion that we know of in antiquity, and, along with Judaism, it was also the only one that was exclusive. That combination of evangelism and exclusion proved to be decisive

God loved rocks, houseflies, weeds, and poor people above all the rest of His creations, and that's why He made so many of them.

El modo en que tratamos al «uno» revela el modo en que consideramos a los noventa y nueve restantes, porque en última instancia cada uno de ellos es «un uno».

With a mission statement, we can flow with changes. We don't need prejudgments or prejudices. We don't need to figure out everything else in life, to stereotype and categorize everything and everybody in order to accommodate reality.

Why allow John Boehner or Nancy Pelosi to dominate your book group when Jefferson, Lincoln, and King are in the room?

The case against bigotry is not a factual claim that humans are biologically indistinguishable. It is a moral stance that condemns judging an individual according to the average traits of certain groups to which the individual belongs.

The final word on the political non-implications of group differences must go to Gloria Steinem: "There are really not many jobs that actually require a penis or a vagina, and all the other occupations should be open to everyone.

In his book The Expanding Circle, the philosopher Peter Singer has argued that over the course of history, people have enlarged the range of beings whose interests they value as they value their own.

one, because it treats every human life as having equal value rather than privileging the people who are closest to us or most photogenic.

Today no respectable public figure in the United States, Britain, or Western Europe can casually insult women or sling invidious stereotypes of other races or ethnic groups.

Gloria Steinem: "There are really not many jobs that actually require a penis or a vagina, and all the other occupations should be open to everyone.

If you had to choose a moment in history to be born, and you did not know ahead of time who you would be—you didn't know whether you were going to be born into a wealthy family or a poor family, what country you'd be born in, whether you were going to be a man or a woman—if you had to choose blindly what moment you'd want to be born, you'd choose now. —Barack Obama, 2016

God's big plan: go love everybody, always!

Be universal in your love. You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being.

I love to make people dance; it's a way of bringing people together regardless of religion, nationality, sexuality, belief.

Love of one's country recognizes no frontiers... of other countries.

Love transcends all animosity and is never partial.