Quotes About Inclusivity

Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color

So, let us not be blind to our differences--but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

A dog judges others not by their color or creed or class but by who they are inside. A dog doesn't care if you are rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his.

We be both of one blood, of one country and in one island.

My prevailing interest has been in the world as a whole, and in the place of a person in a larger setting than one defined by national boundaries.

Doing is inherently plural, collective, choral, communal.

The same principle held in black universities, where students demanded more and more black teachers. White professors who had virtually dedicated their lives and their academic careers as historians, anthropologists, sociologists, to the problems of racism and its cures, thinking they did this for the good of the oppressed victims of racism (and often suffering social and academic insults as a result), were asked to leave schools in favor of black teachers. Some of them turned very bitter.

we don't enjoy giving directions in New Hampshire—we tend to think that if you don't know where you're going, you don't belong where you are. In Canada, we give directions more freely—to anywhere, to anyone who asks.

It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love

It doesn't matter who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it only matters that you love!

I liked him as a bloke, and I like a lot of their songs. I like "Girls On Film," and I can't pretend otherwise. I don't have hatred for different forms of music, in fact I've got a great deal of love and openness to everything done by anybody. Christ, I have to: I've got two Alvin Stardust albums.

Thus much of our Western thinking is not scientific and objective but is orientated through a one-eyed perspective which reflects the prejudiced values of the West, and which necessarily prevents the enquirer from seeing the full picture. This is equivalent to what Blaut calls 'Eurocentric tunnel history'.32 What happens, then, when we view the world through a more inclusive two-eyed perspective?

Take yourself out of the picture. Get in the habit of asking what's best for the team. For example, the next time you are at a problem-solving meeting and everyone is contributing ideas, instead of promoting yourself, ask yourself how the team would do if you were not involved in the solution. If it would do better, then propose ideas that promote and involve people other than yourself.

Don't assume that everyone on earth has seen every movie you have seen.

Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.

Let me ask you: Should only children of the wealthy have access to quality early education? Should only children of the wealthy have access to a college degree? The answer - the only answer - is: no.

I would like to make it so that education was a right, and not a privilege.

Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations.

Opportunities for education should be within the reach of every individual, not for the lucky few.

If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages.

The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.

Internal democracy in schools is as important in order to ensure the true democratization of education.

I was determined to get them away from the idea that their education is a private experience.

Singapore has been incredibly well-managed. It was created out of the swamp, with a strong emotional idea: a safe place for mostly Chinese, but accepting other cultures and other races.