Quotes About Inclusivity

You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.

Every religion at its core is exclusive.

What the person means by saying, "You must be open to everything" is really, "You must be open to everything that I am open to, and anything that I disagree with, you must disagree with too." Indian

I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book, Gulliver's Travels! And this other fellow is Charles Darwin, and this one is Schopenhauer, and this one is Einstein, and this one here at my elbow is Mr Albert Schweitzer, a very kind philosopher indeed. Here we all are, Montag. Aristophanes and Mahatma Gandhi and Gautama Buddha and Confucius and Thomas Love Peacock and Thomas Jefferson and Mr Lincoln, if you please. We are also Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

Pois este é um mundo louco e ficará mais louco se permitirmos que as minorias — sejam elas de anões ou gigantes, orangotangos ou golfinhos, adeptos de ogivas nucleares ou de conversações aquáticas, pró-computarologistas ou neo-ludditas, débeis mentais ou sábios — interfiram na estética.

I can't afford to despise anything. An absurdity may be the starting-point of the most dangerous complications.

There's no suspicion from prejudice.

aunque la economía de goteo hacia abajo no funciona, la economía de goteo hacia arriba sí puede funcionar: todo el mundo —incluso los de arriba— podría beneficiarse dando más a los de abajo y a los de en medio.

When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?' Obviously there are differences between men and women - that's what makes it all fun. But we're all people. There's a lot of good writers who are very humanist, but still manage to kind of skip fifty-five per cent of the race. And I just don't get that. Not to be able to write an entire gender? To me, the question isn't how do you do it? It's how can you possibly avoid doing it?

There's no fuzzy middle ground. You either believe that women are people or you don't. It's that simple.

And why," she asked, "Do you call yourselves America? This hemisphere is one body, one person. She is America.

It is amazing the quality of human beings that are in this world if we can just get past people not dressing the way we want them to dress.

Whatever condition you may find yourself in today or any other day of your life, God's invitation is "Come!" His invitation does not require us to be in any particular condition to meet with Him. If we have been good or bad, happy or sad, glad or mad, the invitation is still simply "come.

Él no muestra prejuicios ni favoritismos con ciertas personas, y deberíamos seguir su ejemplo.

Ei ole niin väliä, ketä rakastaa, kunhan rakastaa.

Truth needs no label: it is neither Buddhist, Christian, Hindu nor Muslim. It is not the monopoly of anybody. Sectarian labels are a hindrance to the independent understanding of Truth, and they produce harmful prejudices in people's minds.

To be attached to one thing (to a certain view) and to look down upon other things (views) as inferior—this the wise men call a fetter.'2

You think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like you. But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew.

Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.

Of equality - As if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself - As if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

One's-Self I sing, a simple separate person,Yet utter the word Democratic, the wordEn-Masse.

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women,If it be a few ragged huts it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you/ That you may be my poem/ I whisper with my lips close to your ear/ I have loved many women and men, but I love none better than you.