Quotes About Inclusivity

I like all ladies of all different ages.

The best thing about humour is that it shows people they are not alone.

As I buried the dead and walked among them, I wanted to make my heart as big as Heaven to include them all and love them and not be distracted. I couldn't do it, of course, but I wanted to.

The way we are, we are members of each other. All of us. Everything. The difference ain't in who is a member and who is not, but in who knows it and who don't. Burley Coulter

Franklin's idea for a multidenominational church where all who accepted "the existence of a supreme intelligence" could come together in celebration of common ideas of morality rather than fixed religious doctrines

in calling other human beings "savage" or "barbarous" we may be expressing no objective fact, but only our fierce fondness for ourselves, and our timid shyness in the presence of alien ways.

And all must love the human form, In heathen, turk, or jew; Where Mercy, Love and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too.

Y todos deben amar a la forma humana, Sean paganos, turcos o judíos; Donde moran la Misericordia, el Amor y la Piedad, allí Dios también tiene su morada.

Given the somewhat dubious and sectarian reputation of madrasas today, it is worth remembering that many of the most brilliant Hindu thinkers, including, for example, the great reformer Ram Mohan Roy (1772–1833), were the products of madrasa educations.

Hooray for differences! Without them, there would be no harmony. In principles, great clarity. In practices, great charity.

The good news of the gospel is that who we are is okay. Our best is good enough. The Savior came for us--just as we are.

Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.

The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.

Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.

I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.

Any time in life you're tempted to think, 'Should I do this OR that?' instead, ask yourself, 'Is there a way I can do this AND that?

When the tools of production are available to everyone, everyone becomes a producer.

That's what some grown-ups called Riley and his friends Ben, Briana, Jamal, and Mongo (whose real name was Hubert Montgomery but, because he was so huge, everybody called him "Humongo," which quickly morphed into "Mongo").

Long before love is a corporate virtue that improves team performance, it is a personal leadership stance. The love-driven leader possesses the vision to see and engage others as they are, not through the cultural filters, prejudices, or narrow-mindedness that diminishes them.

Success does not judge one man for being worthy above another. Success doesn't choose you because of your family name or existing wealth.

I pray, I dream that we become a people who are known not because we have a huge steeple or beautiful stained glass or interesting buildings but because we are so hospitable, so celebratory, that we are constantly inviting others in and sharing Jesus.

I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.