Quotes About Inclusivity

As Herman Melville put it: "We are not so much a nation as a world.

E Pluribus Unum, "One from Many," was taken from, of all places, a recipe for salad in an early poem by Virgil.)

Some day we hope to liberate every man on earth from the tendency as old as human history to identify our strength and manhood with the ability to control the lives, limit the chances, and doom the dreams of women and girls.

And to the memory of my grandfather, who taught me to look up to people others looked down on, because we're not so different after all

As we mature, however, we realize that in order to embrace everyone at the table, we must be willing to release the grip on our personal agenda and see what is best for the community.

The hierarchical, directive leadership style so prevalent in the past century is fading fast in favor of today's collaborative leaders, who

I'm just average, common too. I'm just like him and the same as you. I'm everybody's brother and son. I'm no different than anyone. Bob Dylan - Talking WWIII Blues

It's only in bad novels that people are divided into two camps and have nothing to do with each other. In real life everything gets mixed up! Don't you think you'd have to be a hopeless nonentity to play only one role all your life, to have only one place in society, always to stand for the same thing?--Ah, there you are! - Larissa Fyodorovna in Doctor Zhivago.

Thou hast spread Thy arms to embrace far too many, Flinging Thy hands out till they reach the ends of the crossbeam.

There's no pyramid with literary fiction at the top and everything else at the bottom. It's a flat line.

The World will be a better place when everybody's beige.

I have room in me for love, and for ever so many little lives.

You are the Protector of the Small. You see real people in the humans and animals overlooked by your peers. There will always be work for you.

If you look hard and long, you can find us. If you listen hard and long, you can hear any of us, call any of us that you wish.

Girl, boy or dancing bear, you're the finest page-the finest squire-to-be-at court. (Jon to Alanna)

I don't have so many friends that I can afford to turn my back on any of them.

All things change," she told Alanna frankly. "It does not hurt men to know women have power, too.

The sun began to set behind Bethlehem and the beams were breaking through some white and gray clouds. There was a slight and beautiful chill from the autumn air. I gave thanks for that beautiful day and for the fact that the sun does not know Palestinian from Israeli, Christian from Muslim or Jew, and Asian from American or African, and I asked myself: If the sun shines on all of us as one, how much more does the sun's Creator see and love us all as one?

To destroy other people's culture is to rob them of immortality.

They say I can open movies, and that's nice in that it puts into people's minds that women can do it. It's not just Kevin Costner, not just Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not just the guys.

In trans women's eyes, I see a wisdom that can only come from having to fight for your right to be recognized as female, a raw strength that only comes fro unabashedly asserting your right to be feminine in an inhospitable world.

No form of gender equity can ever truly be achieved until we first work to empower femininity itself.

We make assumptions every day about other people's genders without ever seeing their birth certificates, their chromosomes, their genitals, their reproductive systems, their childhood socialization, or their legal sex. There is no such thing as a "real" gender - there is only the gender we experience ourselves as and the gender we perceive other to be.

So long as we refuse to accept that "woman" is a holistic concept, one that includes all people who experience themselves as women, our concept of womanhood will remain a mere reflection of our own personal experiences and biases rather than something based in the truly diverse world that surrounds us.