Quotes About Inclusivity

There must be every kind of books in your library. The most beautiful gardens are those with many different flowers, with all kinds of herbs and weeds!

To be a 'believer' does not make you superior to others; but to be a 'humanist' does make it so!

You can be a German, you can be a Greek or a Spanish or a Japanese etc, but your true nation is the whole humanity!

You have always the same view from your window! For different views, visit other houses! And for different ideas, visit other minds!

Farts are a repressed minority. The mouth gets to say all kinds of things, but the other place is supposed to keep quiet. But maybe our lower colons have something interesting to say. Maybe we should listen to them. Farts are human, more human than a lot of people I know. I think we should bring them out of the water closet and into the parlor, and that's what I did in Blazing Saddles.

The task that remains is to cope with our interdependence - to see ourselves reflected in every other human being and to respect and honor our differences.

Hobbits, just another Tolkien Minority

What happened to Love comes in all kinds of packages?" "Some packages are wrapped in brown paper and go tick, tick, tick. Those you throw over a bad neighbor's fence.

O senhor não tem cor, Doutor. As pessoas não têm cores. Ou têm cores que não têm nome.

On one occasion, someone asked a famous American musician, Ben Harper, this question: "We've heard you now have a new drummer in your band. Tell me something: is he black?" And Harper replied: "I don't know, I've never asked him.

I would hope everyone would be a feminist.

Feminism is just about equality, really, and there's so much stuff attached to the word, when it's actually so simple. I don't know why it's always so bogged down.

We may not always agree with every one of our neighbors. That's life. And it's part of living in such a diverse and dense city. But we also recognize that part of being a New Yorker is living with your neighbors in mutual respect and tolerance. It was exactly that spirit of openness and acceptance that was attacked on 9/11, 2001.

a country can be too small, too socially knitted, too tightly tied for its own good. Strong social networks can, in certain circumstances, turn to incestuous corruption and the shutting down of democratic discourse. You

There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.

It was the kind of smile that seemed to exclude no one, without becoming abstract philanthropy.

A company that pays attention to the family unit is a successful company. We don't isolate the family. We don't make rides that say, 'Hey mom, dad, you go sit on the bench.'

All the freaky people make the beauty of the world.

Society For The Promotion Of Elfish Welfare

Captain of the Hufflepuff Quidditch team

It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of a social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position.

Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids, who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it.

Yet for the evangelical left, with humor as with everything else, if it's not for everyone then it's not for anyone.

I try again, with the friendliest-looking man I can find. He's middle-aged and round-bellied, like his group of friends, all wearing University of Wisconsin sweatshirts emblazoned with the schools mascot, Bucky Badger.