Quotes About Inclusivity

After all there is but one race -- humanity.

We need an activism of cohesion. We need an activism that doesn't separate Americans into like-minded factions but brings Americans together across tribal lines.

All dwarfs may be bastards yet not all bastards are dwarfs.

You know I've always considered women to be people.

Lords are gold and knights steel, but two links can't make a chain. You also need silver and iron and lead, tin and copper and bronze and all the rest, and those are farmers and smiths and merchants and the like. A chain needs all sorts of metals, and a land needs all sorts of people.

There is no shame in loving.

I left the next morning... for a place where a kiss was not a crime and a man could wear any cloak he chose.' - Mance Rayder

Why must we draw these lines, these fine distinctions, these labels and barriers that set us apart? Ace and nat and joker, capitalist and communist, Catholic and Protestant, Arab and Jew, Indian and Latino, and on and on everywhere, and of course true humanity is to be found only on our side of the line and we feel free to oppress and rape and kill the "other," whoever he might be. (From the Journal of Xavier Desmond)

Remember this, boy. "All dwarfs may be bastards, yet not all bastards need be dwarfs

Being human means learning to see the common humanity in us all.

Each of us bears a responsibility to reject hate, whatever its form, whatever its justification.

No, the religion of Jesus is a social religion.

Most talk of a catholic spirit but it is only till they have been brought into the pale of their own church. This is downright sectarianism, not Catholicism. How can I act consistently, unless I receive and love all the children of God, whom I esteem to be such, of whatever denomination they may be?

Overflowing with the milk of human kindness, the family had invited everyone they could think of, including people they cordially disliked.

Attitudinal Healing is not a religion or religious. It is a practical spirituality that supports and is compatible with all faiths and belief systems. People from many cultures, faiths, and denominations, as well as those who follow no faith at all, are welcome to use the principles of Attitudinal Healing.

The hagaddah came to Sarajevo for a reason. It was here to test us, to see if there were people who could see that what united us was more than what divided us. That to be a human being matters more than to be a Jew or a Muslim, Catholic or Orthodox. p. 361

Raz was one of those vanguard human beings of indeterminate ethnicity, the magnificent mutts that I hope we are all destined to become given another millennium of intermixing. His skin was a rich pecan color from his dad, who was part African American and part native Hawaiian. His hair, straight and glossy black, and the almond shape of his eyes came from his Japanese grandmother. But their color was the cool blue he'd inherited from his mum, a Swedish windsurfing champion.

It is not possible for Christians to take part in anti-Semitism. We are Semites spiritually.

In England, justice is open to all - like the Ritz Hotel.

I am made all things to all men.

Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.

If any of you are related to our main guest, let me know so I can speak slowly.

I'm moving down here . . . because some of you in the back might not be able to hear my talk . . . and that wouldn't be fair to those who can hear it.

The same heart beats in every human breast.