Quotes About Inclusivity

The challenges we face are far too big to be solved by a few chosen people. It's all of our jobs to work for each other now. To believe in our own efficacy to help our communities. Not to solve the problems of the world, but to help the people around us in any and every way we can. That feels right to me.

If the English language had been properly organised by a businessman or Member of Parliament, then there would be a word which meant both "he" and "she", and I could write, "If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis", which would save a lot of trouble.

If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also.

[A]lways I have a chair for you in the smallest parlor in the world, to wit, my heart.

If time and space are curved, where do all of the straight people come from?

— My sexual orientation? Horizontal, usually. — I can't even think straight. — Let's get one thing straight, I'm not. — Straight But Not Narrow — Closets are for clothes. — I'm not a lesbian but my girlfriend is. — I'm not gay but my boyfriend is. — Equal rights are not special rights. — Homophobia is a social disease. — My sexual preference is often.

The geometry of human progress is an expanding circle of compassion. Every advance in thinking has shown that our relationships extend further than we thought.

They were all of the same flesh, after all, sisters under their skins;

I do wish you'd break the careless habit of using the word American as if you had stolen it from the rest of us. Use norteamericano, because we Cubans and Mexicans and Uruguayans, we're also Americans.

Patriotism is not a matter of the skin's color. It is a matter of the heart.

When you expose yourself there are many ways for people to attack you. People will stab you and hurt you. But you can't create art unless you show how unique you are while being inclusive with others who share your problems.

The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.

for you, and if love will not swing wide the gates, no other power will or can.

really mean that there was no love in the church. It was a mask for hatred and self-hatred and despair. The transfiguring power of the Holy Ghost ended when the service ended, and salvation stopped at the church door. When we were told to love everybody, I had thought that that meant everybody. But no. It applied only to those who believed as we did, and it did not apply to white people at all.

When a dark face opens, light seems to go everywhere.

In general, the most effective leaders tend to make extensive use of participative decision making. The best decisions are made with some degree of participation—no one is brilliant or experienced enough to have all the answers. No one.

Che diritto hanno i cristiani bianchi di vantarsi del loro sapere, mentre un indiano è in grado di leggere una lingua che sarebbe troppo oscura per il più saggio di loro?

Show me what's in your heart and your eyes. I don't give a fuck about the color of your skin or the God you worship.

I'm a great example of somebody who is gay but exists on a very complicated gender spectrum. I'm okay with that uncertainty, and I'm okay with existing in a gray area and not always being sure.

Too often black people are confronted with an assumption that there is only one way to be black, and that anyone who doesn't conform is a 'coconut' an 'Uncle Tom' (or as Ms Dent Coad stated in her blog, a 'token'). It implies we are too stupid to understand what it means to be conservative, or are race traitors.

We're a Muslim family, but we're also very cultured and we have a mixture of different religions. For example, my brother-in-law is Catholic, and my sister converted and my nephews are baptized. I have an uncle who just graduated and currently he's a priest.

My little niece used to call me and say 'I like watching that Uncle Darren, can I have a T-shirt of AJ Lee' and I went 'they don't make any' and it just struck me. We have Rey Mysterio for little boys. But we don't have anything for little girls.

I grew up as a kind of nondenominational Christian. I have two uncles who are Baptist ministers. I went to a Samoan church when I was younger. I went to a Catholic school, so I was actually able to experience a lot of different religions. Mormonism, as well. My father in-law, who I'm very close with, is a Muslim.

In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.