Quotes About Inclusivity

He had entered some state of grace—but one that did not exclude. He made you feel you were his co-thinker, even if you said nothing.

OK, then, well, are you a feminist?' She smiled at me. 'Naturally – I am a woman.

In the old days, a child might pay for the sins of the father, or indeed mother. Nowadays, in the most advanced society on earth, the parents might pay for the sins of the child, along with uncles, aunts, cousins, in-laws, colleagues, friends, and even the man who unthinkingly smiled at you as he came out of the lift at three in the morning. The system of retribution had been greatly improved, and was so much more inclusive than it used to be.

Czechoslovakian

Being attractive should have nothing to do with being accepted. It is what is inside a person that matters

Forms of expression that unnecessarily specify gender are widely regarded as sexist. In technical writing, sexist usage is easy to avoid.

We need myths that will help us to identify with all our fellow-beings, not simply with those who belong to our ethnic, national or ideological tribe. We need myths that help us to realise the importance of compassion, which is not always regarded as sufficiently productive or efficient in our pragmatic, rational world.

Charity," Davidson continues, "is forced on us, whether we like it or not; if we want to understand others, we must count them right in most matters."13

All the great spiritual traditions have insisted that what holds us back from enlightenment is selfishness and egotism; they have also said that a practical concern for everybody (not simply those who belong to your own class or those you find congenial) was the test of true spirituality.

When showering life-giving words on another human, don't just pick the people you know well. Notice the one who least expects to be noticed.

We need a sort of reverse mirror test. Some way to identify those species smart enough to see themselves when they look at someone else. Bonus points for how far out the chain you can go. Double bonus points for those who get all the way to insects.

If you can't take a joke, you shouldn't have joined.

Threats come in all guises. Not all soldiers are young males, and not all soldiers wear uniforms.

To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'.

It is essential that men start being interested in and excited by how women think.

'Every man a king' - that's my slogan.

Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.

American leadership looks to the world and just as Lincoln did sees the family of man. Humanity is not a zero-sum game.

The Life and Soul, the man who will never go home while there is one man, woman or glass of anything not yet drunk.

Directing is genderless. The only thing...I love men.

No two men are absolutely alike, not even twins, yet there is much that is indispensably common to all mankind.

As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man.

Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.

Clearly, love is love, between a man and a woman, a woman and a man, a woman and a woman and a man and a man.