Quotes About Inclusivity

Obama said: "It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled—Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals, or a collection of red states and blue states: we are, and always will be, the United States of America.

And so I trust that, in addition to reading about my suggestions and priorities, each of you will contemplate your own ideas and possibilities, and will bring them forward on any of the forums that will emerge to discuss this most significant of issues facing the modern and postmodern world, all around a common theme: "Just how inclusive do you want to be?

BELL HOOKS: "I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer. I think the worst thing that can happen to us is to lose sight of the power of empathy and compassion." MAYA

The worldview of fulcrum-4 is still mythological, and so care and concern are extended to believers in the same mythology, the same ideology, the same race, the same creed, the same culture—but no further. If you are a member of the myth, you are my brother, my sister. If not, you go to hell.

Never lose heart in the power of the gospel. Do not believe that there exists any man, much less any race of men, for whom the gospel is not fitted.

There is no longer any religion when there is no longer any privileged religion. Take from religion its exclusive power and it will no longer exist.

At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.

Pity the Party without enough woman power - there will always be dreamers and leaders, but the dreams won't come true, nor will the leaders reach their goal, without the ready doers.

My spirituality has always been linked to my feminism. Feminism is about challenging unequal power structures.

Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing more than being friends with your friends.

I don't believe any genre of music can be unilaterally dismissed (aside from like, white-power music or something).

Comedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to unite us all.

The only color we must be cynical about is never skin color but, the color of character for what character can do, skin color may never be able to do.

I love all girl squads. I'm all for, like, girl power and friendship, and I'm all about that.

I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road... all tongues and all prayers belong to me. But I belong to none of them.

There is no problem with the opening of new houses of prayer for Lutherans and Pentecostals.

Hospitality invites to prayer before it checks credentials, welcomes to the table before administering the entrance exam.

God does not hear the prayers of a Jew.

Family does not necessarily mean blood relatives but often a description of a community, organisation or nation.

I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.

Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites; it is simply flowing between them.

The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.

Look upon others as being part of yourself.

You can't build a relationship with everybody in the room when you don't care about anybody in the room.