Quotes About Inclusivity

There are far too many men in politics and not enough elsewhere.

Mom always tells me to celebrate everyone's uniqueness. I like the way that sounds.

I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.

We are here to advance the cause of women and to advance the cause of democracy and to make it absolutely clear that the two are inseparable. There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

I don't care whether you're a guy or a girl. I'll always like you.

In New York City, you can walk down the street and see a girl in a trench who looks equally as cool as a girl wearing Lululemon. It's like you're watching models. You see a little of everything right by you.

Don't just yell France! There are a lot of other countries.

Race doesn't exist. Skin color exists. Hair and eye color are real. Body type varies from individual to individual, as does tooth shape and color, the form of fingernails, and the amount and texture of body hair. But 'race' is a phantom conjured up by people no different from each other than purebred Cocker spaniels are. Race is a lie, and the people who conjure by it, no matter their color or their politics, are liars.

Ce privilege d'etre partout chez soi n'apppartient qu'aux rois, aux filles et aux voleurs

I gravitate toward women.

I try to instill [in my daughters] a higher moral code, one that is far more vulnerable to decency and goodness. I want my girls to find reasons to enjoy all the people in their lives, even if it means they have to tap into every creative well in their soul to do so. I want them to truly, way down deep in their hearts, know that all people... are worthy, viable, and exceptional beings who have much to give and even more to share.

He was comfortable in any social situation: garden party or cage fighting contest, it was all the same to Vid, it was all interesting.

We're a bit too white breed here on the peninsula. We like to think we're diverse but it's only our bank accounts that differ.

In every man there is a little of all men.

I search for in my work, in these far-flung places, to find a group of people who give each other the room to BE in whatever way they need to be. And maybe I will never find it all in one culture, but maybe I can find parts of it in several cultures, maybe I can piece it together like a mosaic and reveal it to the world. Bu the world is deaf. The world--and I really mean the West--has no interest in change or self improvement...

Her last sentences urged acceptance of cultural relativism and tolerance of differences.

Make No Distinctions

No single group of people can be lumped together and neatly categorized.

Our flesh has never been a boundary for the human being. We only reach out from there to occupy the space around us. Even more significantly, it occupies us.

There's love, sweet love, for one and all-- For love is best for great and small.

Edith would always believe art was for everyone, whether rich or poor, educated or not.

If I'm meant to love people, I should love everyone. What kind of tide can an ocean bestow if it picks and chooses the rocks it's willing to touch?

My father had the rare ability to make others feel as though they were the one and only. That they were seen, heard, chosen. He would take you by the hand and say, Come with me, and for a brief or a long moment you might think you were the first person he has ever said this to. That it was you and him against the world.