Quotes About Inclusivity

Success in politics demands that you must take your people into confidence about your views and state them very clearly, very politely, very calmly, but nevertheless, state them openly.

Democracy meant all men were to be heard, and a decision was taken together as a people. Majority rule was a foreign notion. A minority was not to be crushed by a majority.

all remained loyal to him, not because they always agreed with him, but because the regent listened to and respected different opinions.

not because they always agreed with him, but because the regent listened to and respected all different opinions.

good ideas are embraced whether they come from a senior executive or the company cook.

universal features shared by all musics. The very word 'universal' should put us on our guard: as the postcolonial scholar Homi Bhabha says, 'universalism…masks ethnocentric norms, values, and interests'.

The best role for Americans who want to help Muslim women isn't holding the microphone at the front of the rally but writing the checks and carrying the bags in the back.

I've got a really great family round me, two sisters and an older brother and my mum and dad. Everybody's equal.

Some people, possibly aliens, don't favor a dark terminal background. - Hacking the Planet (with Notcurses)

Tolerance means to have the heart open to all differences; it is the honorable attitude of receiving another's opinion in order to appreciate it; it is the generous willingness to reach an agreement for the common good. Tolerance is the most precious virtue of democracy.

There are no commandments against love," he said.

In my imagination I smiled back at her, then found I was smiling down at her because she was in a wheelchair.

She might wear a blade, but she also wears skirts, priest, like you. So she will learn. Teach her. But not about your Christ. There'll be others for that, in time.

Parties are like life-you think that what you see is all there is, until you discover the next layer, a whole other culture that's going on all around you but you never knew existed.

Not all were Anglisc, but they drank and shouted and boasted alike.

Die nationalistische Xenophobie bewahrt die Unversehrtheit köstlicher Speisen für die, die weder Nationalisten noch xenophob sind.

Je suis partout où je suis.

Truth is loving and lovable. It includes all, accepts all, purifies all. It is untruth that is difficult and a source of trouble.

In dream you love some and not others. On waking up you find you are love itself, embracing all. Personal love, however intense and genuine, invariably binds; love in freedom is love of all.

you will become everything, including the moving and the inert.

Huelga decir que no solo las «mujeres» pueden adoptar el feminismo como una perspectiva política y una forma de vida, pero los varones que elijan hacerlo deben posicionarse en contra de los privilegios que de otra manera podrían haber dado por sentados.

I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.

People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.

I started at the bottom and loved just one; and if you love one, you can love many; and if many, you can love all.