Quotes About Inclusivity

The next time a woman of whatever color, or a dark-skinned person of whatever sex aspires to be president, the way should be a little smoother because I helped pave it

different women view different segments of the women's movement agenda as priority items. (From Voices of Multicultural America)

It is going to have to be the have-nots — the blacks, browns, reds, yellows, and whites who do not share in the good life that most Americans lead — who somehow arouse the conscience of the nation and thus create a conscience in the Congress. My role, as I see it, is to help them do so, working outside of Washington, perhaps, as much as inside it.

Unless nominees are chosen democratically, with the widest possible participation in the process, nothing else really matters.

People don't associate red hair, pale skin, and freckles with beauty.

Kindness is a language the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Art students didn't care whether I was from India or Botswana; they cared about Van Gogh, Gauguin, and the meaning of life. They didn't see me as a brown- skinned foreigner; they spotted raw sienna, burnt umber, and cadmium yellow shades on my face. They didn't stereotype me because my parents were Hindu and vegetarian; they reminded me not to blow up the studio while welding and cutting

The Beauty Ideal: What that ideal is unimportant, for any ideal leaves the majority out; ideals, by definition, are modeled on rare qualities. [...] If and when, by artificial methods, the majority can squeeze into the ideal, the ideal changes. If it were attainable, what good it would be? For the exclusivity of the beauty ideal serves a clear political function. Someone - most women - will be left out.

Using Initials was the first step by mankind towards secularism

Just remember, when someone has an accent, it means that he knows one more language than you do.

One of the reasons I did this, because I wasn't really looking for another science fiction film, was that my daughter can see it. She's 9 and it's really a good film for all ages.

Blackness is not just black straight men. There are gay men in this work doing amazing work. There are queer folks. There are trans folks. There are gay and lesbian folks, bisexual…. There are atheist black people.

People can't put on an opera, but they can write a poem. It's accessible art.

If you're good at providing schools for everyone, as most democracies are, then you are probably also good at providing good soccer fields and coaches for everyone.

The club is not a business. It's a populist democracy.

Keep your mind too open, and you never know what might walk in.

It's certainly hard to find fault with a work that quotes Shakespeare, Homer, and a dirty limerick about "the young man from Oswego.

All places, all airs make unto me one country; I am in England, everywhere, and under any meridian.

Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.

Love recognizes no barriers.

Anywhere you go liking everyone, everyone will be likeable.

Consider no one a stranger. Learn to feel that everybody is akin to you.

I treat everybody the same. You know I love to be with people: the youngsters.

If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.