Quotes About Inclusivity

For democracies to thrive, the majority must respect the rights of minorities to dissent, loudly.

A couple you do not recognize - visitors, strangers - come to the door. How are you to view these people and what is your responsibility towards them? ... To assume that these visitors are really like you, that there are no real difference between you and them, and that the highest goal possible is that you and the other members of your congregation will become intimate friends with them and invite them into the private spaces of your life.

Where do you begin telling someone their world is not the only one? —Lee Maracle, Ravensong

O mundo é meu país, os humanos são meus irmãos e fazer o bem é minha religião.

Science, the partisan of no country, but the beneficent patroness of all, has liberally opened a temple where all may meet. Her influence on the mind, like the sun on the chilled earth, has long been preparing it for higher cultivation and further improvement. The philosopher of one country sees not an enemy in the philosophy of another: he takes his seat in the temple of science, and asks not who sits beside him. —Thomas Paine, 1778

Science, the partisan of no country, but the beneficent patroness of all, has liberally opened a temple where all may meet. Her influence on the mind, like the sun on the chilled earth, has long been preparing it for higher cultivation and further improvement. The philosopher of one country sees not an enemy in the philosophy of another: he takes his seat in the temple of science, and asks not who sits beside him. —Thomas Paine, 17781

The poorest he that is in England hath a life to live as the greatest he.

The condition of women is therefore at the heart of the question of humanity itself, here, there, and everywhere.

The Pauline idea of inclusive election—the idea that the elect are chosen instruments through whom God's mercy will eventually reach those who have stumbled—sets Paul squarely against a temptation as old as religion itself: the temptation to distinguish between the favored few—to which, of course, we belong—and everyone else.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

There is not one who is Fatherless, nor Motherless in the Universe.

La compasión no es propiedad de ninguna religión ni de ningún credo".

Westerners may wonder, "Who are these gods?" If we were to adapt this to our cultural context, the verse might be, "Homage to you adored by Jesus, Mary, Moses, Abraham, Mohammed, Zeus, Socrates, Plato, Rambo, Madonna, Freud, Dr. Laura, Clinton, Bush, and everyone in Star Wars.

True love does not depend on physical expression. You should realize this. True love is a feeling deep within you. It is not just a matter of wearing a smile on your face and looking happy. Rather, it arises from a heartfelt understanding of every other being's suffering and radiates out to all of them indiscriminately. It does not favor a chosen few to the exclusion of everyone else. This is true love.

and, no matter who they are, where they come from, or what they look like, you know that you're made of the same stuff." "So, because of this soul tribe member, you're turning down what you've wanted your whole life?

It's not an 'either/or,' it's an 'and.' You can be serious and play.

That's the scandal of grace. It means that if you've been working hard to be right with God, then you've been wasting your time because God welcomes everyone—righteous and unrighteous alike.

The task is to become church for them, among them and with them, and under Spirit of God to lead them to become church in their own culture.

Ethnic jokes are the last refuge of a bankrupt intellect.

You realize that gay-bashing is the IQ demarcation line of the subzero intellect?

Everyone should dance. And everyone should sing. People say, 'Well, I can't sing.' Everybody can sing. That you do it badly is no reason not to sing.

There's no reason why you can't deliver a grammar-school curriculum to an all-ability intake.

If we can make great games for PS3 players... how many PS3 players are out there? If we can make great games for everybody, that's a much bigger service. There's no reason I shouldn't do that.

It's no secret that I'm called to a different place, maybe, for some of the beliefs in the LGBTQ community because of my faith. With that said, I'm also called to be accepting and compassionate.