Quotes About Inclusivity

Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.

We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.

The African continent has always been more queer than generally acknowledged.

The term "queer" is not simply a 1990s recoding of a pre-Stonewall epithet but here refers to a myriad forms of same-sex and other non-normative kinds of desire that have come to inform certain specific identity groups such as gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgender individuals, transsexuals, transvestites, cross dressers, drag queens, drag kings, alternative straights and anyone in between.

The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.

The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse.

How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

For progressive universalizers, the vision is an egalitarian society leveling the playing field and delivering good jobs and fair rewards across class, race, and gender.

To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.

I think we're all bugs and mice, and are only different expressions of an all-inclusive cheese.

Meleager of Gadara called, in the first century BC, "one country which is the whole world.

Humor has a way of bringing people together. It unites people. In fact, I'm rather serious when I suggest that someone should plant a few whoopee cushions in the United Nations.

Dear taco trucks: Please consider cruising the neighborhoods like ice cream trucks.

She had a slender, small body, but a large heart — a heart so large that everybody's grief and everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

The mountains and the stones and the birds and the animals are my family too —

Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands. The interests, rights, and liberties of American citizens are no more dear to us, than are those of the whole human race. Hence, we can allow no appeal to patriotism, to revenge any national insult or injury. The Prince of Peace, under whose stainless banner we rally, came not to destroy, but to save, even the worst of enemies.

Jokes about menstrual cycles are not funny. Period.

I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being — that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

If it is dark, all men are black.

And so our conception of religion is getting roomier and more inclusive today, and love is the magician who has enlarged the temple!

Wear a smile — one size fits all.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

We urgently need to bring to our communities the limitless capacity to love, serve, and create for and with each other. We urgently need to bring the neighbor back into our hoods, not only in our inner cities but also in our suburbs, our gated communities, on Main Street and Wall Street, and on Ivy League campuses.