Quotes About Inclusivity

Most of all, I love graduations. They are individual and communal, an end and a beginning, more permanent than weddings, more inclusive than religions, and possibly the most moving ceremonies on earth.

The less gender-polarized the culture, the lower the degree of violence and the greater the degree of democracy.

Despite all their faults, campaigns are based on the fact that every vote counts, and therefore every person counts. As freestanding societies, they are more open than academia, more idealistic than corporations, more unifying than religions, and more accessible than government itself.

One of the saddest things I hear as I travel is "I don't know enough to be a feminist." Or even "I'm not smart enough to be a feminist." It breaks my heart.

We are linked, not ranked.

for the less powerful to speak as much as they listen, and for the more powerful to listen as much as they speak.

when God is depicted only as a white man, only white men seem godly. They

There are really not many jobs that actually acquire a penis or a vagina, and all other occupations should be open to everyone.

The personal is political. When

Since Native students often prosper in cooperative rather than competitive classrooms—as do a lot of female students, regardless of where they come from—I've been asked to talk about the feminist movement and efforts to change classrooms into learning circles.

I don't know enough to be a feminist." Or even "I'm not smart enough to be a feminist." It breaks my heart.

I discovered that Native languages, Cherokee and others--like Bengali and other ancient languages--didn't have gendered pronouns like "he" and "she.

People nod at the idea that when God is depicted inly as a white man, only white men seem godly. They laugh at the idea that priests dressed in skirts try to trump women's birth-giving power by baptising with imitation birth fluid, calling us reborn, and going women one better by promising everlasting life.

Soon we discovered the intensity of interest in the simple idea that each person's shared humanity and individual uniqueness far outweighed any label by group of birth, whether sex, race, class, sexuality, ethnicity, religious heritage, or anything else.

One of the saddest things I hear as I travel is "I don't know enough to be a feminist." Or even "I'm not smart enough to be a feminist." It breaks my heart.

The Sacred Hoop

Abro espacios a millones de hombres, espacios en los que tal vez no estén seguros, pero sí podrán estar activos y libres.

Credo nella pedagogia insieme alla democrazia, perché non c'è l'una senza l'altra.

True power can never be gained by depriving others from it. True power always comes from within.

I remind you that no man who makes disparaging remarks concerning those of another race can consider himself a true disciple of Christ," said President Hinckley. "How can any man holding the Melchizedek Priesthood arrogantly assume that he is eligible for the priesthood whereas another who lives a righteous life but whose skin is of a different color, is ineligible?

Our membership in this Church . . . should never be any cause for self-righteousness, for arrogance, for denigration of others, for looking down upon others. All mankind is our neighbor.

It would be narrowness to suppose that an artist can only care for the impressions of those who know the methods of his art as well as feel its effects. Art works for all whom it can touch.

Pigeons are people too.

Come, clear the way, then, clear the way: Blind creeds and kings have had their day. Break the dead branches from the path: Our hope is in the aftermath... Make way for Brotherhood—make way for Man.