Quotes About Inclusivity

There is not a thought that is being thought in the West or the East that is not active in some Indian mind

This diminishment of the ego gives rise to empathy and compassion beyond tribal, racial, national, or religious affiliations.

I've learnt that you've got to be really non-apologetic... You've got to say, 'Hi, I'm here, can I have a cup of tea? And one of those biscuits?' If you say that, it's fine. If you go in and say, 'Excuse me, I'm a transvestite, I'll be in the corner, I won't be a problem, I'll face away,' everyone will go, 'Oh-oh, problem case in the corner.' So don't apologise.

We need to become more open minded to the idea that many of us exist on a spectrum - a continuum - of gender. That for some of us the choice isn't just one or the other - completely male or completely female - but often a combination of both. In fact, it seems there are three different lines on the sexuality spectrum: how you self identify, who you're attracted to, and what you look like. And it seems the dial can be at any place on any of those three lines.

It doesn't matter what sex or sexuality, how you identify or who you fancy - it matters not one whit. What do you do in life? What do you create? What do you add to the human existence - that is what matters.

It was amusement enough to be with a group of fearless and talkative girls, who said new things in a new language, who were ignorant of tradition and unimpressed by distinctions of rank; but it was soon clear that their young hostesses must be treated with the same respect, if not with the same ceremony as English girls of good family.

Everything ought to be open,—but not indifferently to every man.

The reason that he knew so much about everything, I found, was that wherever he went he got right in with the people 

A closed country is a dying country... A closed mind is a dying mind.' from a radio broadcast in 1947

I'm tired of hearing you men say that this and that and the other isn't woman's work. Any work is woman's work that a woman can do well.

All of our time, energy, and money go into keeping people away from us, into building up walls. What if we didn't do that? What if we became part of the world around us? What if we used all of that time, energy, and money for something else? For a greater good? We would no longer be people who were only worth a trash bag full of ransom money. We would be people who were worth something real.

The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.

And Star Trek is not an action TV series. It's about a lot more than that

The visitor (what Scripture calls the "foreigner" or "alien") comes first. The visitor who returns comes next. The less popular, the introverts, the marginalized, or those sitting alone come next. Then come the children. Jesus singles them out as examples of the marginalized. "Hi, _______" is offered to as many people as possible, which doesn't have to be accompanied by a hug or a handshake.

As no one can adventure nearer the throne of God by virtue of his rank, his wealth, or his talent, so no one is kept farther from that throne by his low condition, or by his poverty of wealth, of learning, or of intellect. The prince and the sage are not more welcome to heaven than the poor and ignorant.

Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

Die Ethik ist nur vollständig und echt und lebendig, wenn sie alle lebenden Wesen mit einschliesst.

Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.

I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy.

I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.

An oak is no respecter of persons.