Quotes About Inclusivity

We are all human; therefore, nothing human can be alien to us.

He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style. We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his.

No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance.

I gave birth to one child, a son, but I have thousands of daughters. You are Black and White, Jewish and Muslim, Asian, Spanish speaking, Native Americans and Aleut. You are fat and thin and pretty and plain, gay and straight, educated and unlettered, and I am speaking to you all. Here is my offering to you.

Take a month and show some kindness for the folks who thought that blindness was an illness that affected eyes alone.

I began this lifelong lesson. If human beings eat a thing, and if I am not so violently repelled by my own upbringing that I cannot speak, and if it is visually clean within reason, and if I am not allergic to the offering, I will sit at the table and with all the gusto I can manufacture I will join in the feast. P.S. I call this a lifelong lesson for I have not fully learned it and I am often put to the test...

If I am comfortable inside my skin, I have the ability to make other people comfortable inside their skins.

Great art belongs to all people, all the time—indeed it is made for the people by the people.

It's like I've struck a blow for dweebs everywhere, or something.

We'd be the Joystick Order. Out motto would be High Score for One, Pizza for All.

Elevating such extraordinary figures as Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks and concentrating on their accomplishments to the exclusion of the foot soldiers who sustained the Civil Rights Movement, for example, implies that only a few people are called to change the world, especially within low-income and/or nonwhite communities, and that everyone else might as well stand aside.

They were a couple in a way that didn't exclude anyone but seemed superior to every other relationship in the room.

The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources—because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.

There was something to be said for diversity, though it sometimes did complicate matters.

It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement; but rather than resigning myself to this appropriation I choose to re-appropriate the term "feminism," to focus on the fact that to be "feminist" in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression.

There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.

All too often we think of community in terms of being with folks like ourselves: the same class, same race, same ethnicity, same social standing and the like..I think we need to be wary: we need to work against the danger of evoking something that we don't challenge ourselves to actually practice.

As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.

As a classroom community, our capacity to generate excitement is deeply affected by our interest in one another, in hearing one another's voices, in recognizing one another's presence.

Our] struggle for liberation has significance only if it takes place within a feminist movement that has as its fundamental goal the liberation of all people.

We knew that there could be no real sisterhood between white women and women of color if white women were not able to divest of white supremacy, if feminist movement were not fundamentally anti-racist.

If women want a feminist revolution—ours is a world that is crying out for feminist revolution—then we must assume responsibility for drawing women together in political solidarity. That means we must assume responsibility for eliminating all the forces that divide women.

I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.

I choose to re-appropriate the term feminism, to focus on the fact that to be feminist in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression.