Quotes About Inclusivity

You don't have to be black, brown, red, or yellow to do good research about the experiences of people of color. You don't have to fabricate a racial/ethnic identity to be a researcher--or even an activist. Knowledge belongs to all of us. Activism belongs to all of us. Stop centering yourselves in the lived experiences of people of color. Just do the work that needs to be done.

Changing the way we talk is not political correctness run amok. It reflects an admirable willingness to acknowledge others who once were barely visible to the dominant culture, and to recognize that something that may seem innocent to you may be painful to others.

People and gorillas, horses and duikers and pigs, monkeys and chimps and bats and viruses: We're all in this together.

We are not separate, and I want you to know that. We are all part of one thing, and nothing good has ever passed or ever can pass away. There is no way out, but there is a way in, and when one person feels lonely like a ghost it touches us all.

You're a good lot, you Deadheads. I'm proud to be one of you.

Things have their place. You wouldn't hang dreidels from a Christmas tree.

Religion does not own activism.

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence began working like real nuns, raising money for the sick at church bingos and organizing a charity dog show featuring Shirley MacLaine as emcee.

That Native American cultures are imperiled is important and not just to Indians. It is important to everyone, or should be. When we lose cultures, we lose American plurality—the productive and lovely discomfort that true difference brings.

I think all those rules are boring. About what people can and can't wear. Surely everyone should be able to wear whatever they like?

David Walliams

David Walliams

Shlomo Carlebach used to say, if he meets a student who says he is a Protestant, he knows he is a Protestant; if he meets a student who says he is a Catholic, he knows he is a Catholic. If he meets a student who says he is a human being, he knows he is a Jew.

We simplify tens of millions of individuals down into simplistic stereotypes, so that they hold the space of only one individual in our limited available memory slots. And here is the key—those who lie outside the circle are not human. We lack the capacity to recognize them as such.

Climb above the pack but leave the ladder in place for others to follow

Perhaps nothing in sports or in life is as accessible to all as running. It didn't matter our language, creed, or skin color, running was a commonality we all shared. Two hundred of us ran down that highway as one. So many things in this world divide us, rip us apart, but here was something that united us, that brought us together. The fact that running is available to all doesn't diminish its significance; it amplifies it.

True leaders do not command their followers, but they inspire them, they do not lord over them, but are examples before them, and do not lead through compulsions, but through liberty. Ask your nature.

For where thou art, there is the world itself.

Accents are funny in that they have this odd draw for us, yet we forget we have one, too. No one is without an accent, but the one you've got seems like oatmeal to their caviar.

We are all part of something magnificent.

You are not for everybody, but you are for somebody.

I'm a dreamer and I'm not the only one, I believe in a world where we all live as one and I hope you will join us one day.

Spirituality is feeling a oneness with humanity.

The sun stands out not because it merely shines, but because it shines on everyone.