Quotes About Inclusivity

Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.

Big cities can have big hearts.

Open your heart - open it wide; someone is standing outside

Heaven is my father and Earth is my mother and even such a small creature as I finds an intimate place in their midst. Therefore that which extends throughout the universe I regard as my body and that which directs the universe I consider as my nature. All people are my brothers and sisters, and all things are my companions.

Maud did not see homosexuality either as a crime or a sin; rather, she saw it as an attribute existing most likely from birth, beyond conscious control.

We [-women and men-] are all equal in our creaturehood, whatever our sex, color, age, background, or abilities. But we are all different in the functions we were created to perform, as different as water from stones, and engineering from imaginative fiction.

My prayer is that before they die, all people know that they are loved

Nutsawoo come, too?

Stars do not shine on their friends alone.

Death to the pale-penised man-monster! Death to the pendulous-breasted harridan!

And besides, libraries aren't just about books. They are one of the few public spaces we have left which don't like our wallets more than us.

We are all so weird that, really, none of us are. There are seven billion versions of strange on this freak wonder of a planet. We are all part of that. All freaks. All wonderful.

Ignore idiots with narrow definitions od beauty. They are blind to life's imperfect wonder.

A friend doesn't care about the size of your house and that friend can be human, pixie or mouse. A friend may be a rabbit, a friend may be an elf. But a friend is a friend, if they like you for yourself.

person was like a city. You couldn't let a few less desirable parts put you off the whole.

Whenever I see someone reading a book, especially if it is someone I don't expect, I feel civilization has become a little safer.

A person was like a city. You couldn't let a few less desirable parts put you off the whole. There may be bits you don't like, a few dodgy side streets and suburbs, but the good stuff makes it worthwhile.

History isn't something you need to bring to life. History already is alive. We are history. History isn't politicians or kings and queens. History is everyone. It is everything.

I think, that if the world were a bit more like ComicCon, it would be a better place.

The State is of the religion of all its citizens without the fanaticism of any of them.

The beauty of Catholicism is every human being's right.

THIS YEAR CATHOLIC CHARITIES WILL PROVIDE 2.2 MILLION FREE MEALS TO THE HUNGRY AND THE NEEDY OF CHICAGO. WE DON'T ASK THEM IF THEY ARE CATHOLIC—WE JUST ASK THEM IF THEY ARE HUNGRY. REDISCOVER CATHOLICISM.

A sense of belonging is a sine qua non of healthy psychological functioning everywhere. Such a sense, beginning in infancy and continuing throughout life, comes about by experiencing mutual empathy; by sensing oneself as part of a whole, which recognizes and accepts that one is a member.

We will arrive at the universal not by abandoning our particularity but by turning it into a way of reaching others, by virtue of that mysterious affinity which makes situations mutually understandable.