Quotes About Inclusivity

We stand on the shoulders of revisionist authors such as Andrew Torget, Andrés Tijerina, Jesús F. de la Teja, Jeff Long, and Paul D. Lack, whose work is an antidote to the "Heroic Anglo Narrative" that's held sway in Texas for going on two hundred years.

There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.

Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves.

Do not make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

No belief or idea is sacred, unless it treats all people as sacred.

The roots of all commonwealth are planted in the understanding that we are all the same human beings.

I was shooting in the low 70s and 60s by the time I was twelve. That's the great thing about golf. It doesn't matter how old or young you are; if you're 90 and can shoot a good score, people will want to play with you.

Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?

To him in whom love dwells, the whole world is but one family.

Toleration is odious to the intolerant.

let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the very milk and sperm of kindness.

A] strange necessity has been laid upon me to devote my life to the central concern that transcends the walls that divide and would achieve in literal fact what is experienced as literal truth: human life is one and all men are members of one another. And this insight is spiritual and it is the hard core of religious experience.

It has long been a matter of serious moment that for decades we have studied the various peoples of the world and those who live as our neighbors as objects of missionary endeavor and enterprise without being at all willing to treat them either as brothers or as human beings.

Look at the people of Briançon!

Novels without female characters were a lifeless desert.

Latino history is like a river dividing the United States and Mexico. It is shared by several different cultures and called by many different names. In other words there isn't a single Latino history but many.

To be racially mixed is to represent unity, to synthesize, to integrate.

I have the same interests as women. Well, apart from football and music, obviously. I've always had as many female friends as male ones. The novels I read as a young man were all by women writers, and when I started writing, I wanted to set my books inside the home.

I want to reach everybody, from the little girls who are 3 years old, to the grandmother who watches my soap, to a young man in love.

People often ask me why I choose to primarily play queer characters, and my answer is that as a queer man, I choose to align myself with projects in which I can be of service for a purpose greater than myself: to be for an audience of queer people of color, something I didn't have the privilege of seeing as a young man.

The game business arose from computer programs that were written by and for young men in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They worked so well that they formed a very lucrative industry fairly quickly. But what worked for that demographic absolutely did not work for most girls and women.

It doesn't inspire young men and women struggling with their own sexuality to be confident in who they are if I'm not confident in who I am.

What we need is a system of thought - you might even call it a religion - that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

Instead of presiding over an economic system that panders to big business and a wealthy elite, a more human economy must be established which meets the needs of African women and young people.