Quotes About Inclusivity

Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you're really in favor of free speech, then you're in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you're not in favor of free speech.

The principle of universality is not a 'theory'. Just moral truism.

Strangers are treated as friends, and friends never as strangers.

Love makes room, Brad. There's always more room for love.

The most wretched people in the world are those who tell you they like every kind of music 'except country.

Booze is the greatest of all equalizers. Rich drunks and poor drunks both pass out the same way.

If you aspire to be truly open-minded, you can't just try to see the other side of an argument. That's not enough. You have to go all the way.

It's just such a big commitment, Brandy says, being a girl, you know. Forever. Taking the hormones. For the rest of her life. The pills, the patches, the injections, for the rest of her life. And what if there was someone, just one person who would love her, who could make her life happy, just the way she was, without the hormones and make-up and the clothes and shoes and surgery? She has to at least look around the world a little.

The rebellion is home to all kinds.

all hail the light, the dark, and the gray.

That was how it started, Enoch thought, almost a hundred years ago. The campfire fantasy had turned into fact and the Earth now was on galactic charts, a way station for many different peoples traveling star to star. Strangers once, but now there were no strangers. There were no such things as strangers. In whatever form, with whatever purpose, all of them were people.

After a while, after a long while. When Man stops believing that racial loyalty means the right to subjugate all other life. It will come, Ash, and humanity will be greater for it, allied to everything that lives, not an arrogant and fearful master.

After all, where can the glorious, the goofy, and the god-like stand shoulder to shoulder?

Where else can bubble-gum hearts, the dream travellers, the serial killers, and the occasional guest-star from beyond the grave occupy the same space?

Dream! Forge yourself and rise Out of your mind and into others. Men, be women. Fish, be flies. Girls, take beards. Sons, be your mothers. The future of the world now lies In coral wombs behind our eyes.

There's nothing special about you,' said the man. 'There's nothing special about any of us.' His gesture embraced them all: prisoners, guards, foremen.

The Inuit language has no difference between he or she, or between mankind and animal," she adds. "They're all equal."5

The Midland Midwest would develop as a center of moderation and tolerance, where people of many faiths and ethnicities lived side by side, largely minding their own business.

It is fruitless to search for the characteristics of an "American" identity, because each nation has its own notion of what being American should mean.

Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn

This, I think, shows what being free means. Not cutting off one's ties with other but making networks out of these connections in cooperation with them.

One must love everything.

It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only? Ought not education to bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities?

It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only?