Quotes About Inclusivity

You gotta understand, my great-grandfather was German and Irish. My grandmother was Indian, and my grandfather was African-American, so we all got a little something in us.

The president in Finland has to understand that there are many different thoughts and opinions and that they must be taken into account so that he could be the president of the whole nation.

In this age of growing interconnectedness, we understand that turning our backs on the world is simply not an option.

You're actually putting someone down by saying that you don't understand their culture and hence it's not normal. Perhaps some things we find 'new' were simply things we were ignorant to earlier.

It is absolutely important to make accessible the Gospel for all people and also understandable for Jewish people.

There should be a tacit code or understanding among privileged people not to endorse things that give others an inferiority complex.

Listening is a crucial aspect of democracy. Listening creates understanding, and understanding permits one of the most important things about every democracy, which is civilized disagreement.

I love being a mixed-race woman in 2017. I feel part of something big. There's this understanding that we're all in it together.

The thing that is most conducive of that better life for all is love, acceptance, understanding and being yourself.

We've been ahead for so long in the U.K., we're so multicultural, and that's the beauty. That's why grime was formed, from this mix, this understanding of different people.

Being lieutenant governor is sort of like being invited into everyone's living room, and you just get an understanding of the state.

Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.

Ronald Reagan gave our party a bowling alley image as opposed to a country club image. We were talking to people who go bowling on Thursday night, and they were understanding what we were saying.

Empathy has the power to bring together people who would otherwise never meet. It has the power to teach us and to reach us in moments of isolation when we think nobody understands.

If we want a Parliament that understands people's lives when it takes decisions, it needs to be representative of society, which includes having MPs who are parents of small children - both mums and dads.

Everybody understands companionship, wants it, gets it, no matter what it looks like.

In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that.

Humor levels the playing field. I understood that early on - that was something I had.

I don't want to be a race-transcending leader. I want to be deeply understood as a man, as African- American, as a Christian, all that I am.

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

Undoubtedly Obama's multi-ethnic heritage is part of his appeal. There is something in his background that we can all relate to and grab hold of.

The March on Washington was a March for Jobs and Freedom. There are still too many people who are unemployed or underemployed in America - they're black, white, Latino, Native American and Asian American.

If we discover niche services that have been overlooked in our society, we can create many jobs for the unemployed, retired and young people.

Minister Farrakhan absolutely says anti-Semitic, misogynistic and homophobic remarks. And we have unequivocally rejected all forms of racism and hate, including anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, etc.