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Quotes About Exclusion

I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?
~ Emily Dickinson
I'm Nobody! Who are you?
~ Emily Dickinson
I am Nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too?
~ Emily Dickinson
I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you—Nobody—Too?
~ Emily Dickinson
Any subject we exclude from fiction will drop from our culture's memory.
~ Emma Donoghue
I'll be looking for patriotic, honorable, bright young men from the right backgrounds to manage the various departments. In other words, no Jews or Negroes, and very few Catholics, and that's only because I'm a Catholic.
~ Eric Roth
It is, in particular, important to distinguish between the inclusionary role of identity and the exclusionary force of separatism.
~ Amartya Sen
What we need to do is enter sensibly into an age of liberty and peaceful diversity, casting aside the injustices of the past without replacing them by new ones or by other kinds of exclusion or intolerance, and recognising the right of everyone to include several linguistic allegiances within his own identity.
~ Amin Maalouf
But in recent years, whether because of growing strength or growing frustration with the lack of progress, the Left has upped the ante. A shift in tone, rhetoric, and logic has moved identity politics away from inclusion—which had always been the Left's watchword—toward exclusion and division.
~ Amy Chua
This sadness, this discomfort—this wasn't the judgment of someone who didn't want to join the party. This was the judgment of someone who'd assumed the party wasn't for them.
~ Amy Lane
Truly Christ blessed the lepers and the whores, but there is no comfort in the Bible for boys with small winks, and they are the most shunned of all.
~ Andrew Holleran
Coming from Chicago, Lollapalooza is the one weekend of the summer when actual Chicagoans are kept out.
~ Vic Mensa
We are not going to welcome any more people. Stop - we are full up!
~ Marine Le Pen
It's not hard to figure out when you're not welcome.
~ Noelle Stevenson
I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.
~ Bob Dylan
Too many people feel stuck in the middle - not wealthy by any measure, but doing just well enough that the social safety net isn't there for them. They feel left behind by a system that isn't listening to them and an economy that isn't rewarding them for their hard work.
~ Roy Cooper
Not only does disability impact individual health and well-being, it also leads to social and economic exclusion.
~ Peter Maurer
One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
~ A. B. Yehoshua
All the way on the West Coast, never having seen a Broadway show, it was like, 'They don't want me. There's nothing there for me.' I'd come to New York a lot and never even tried to see a Broadway show. There was no reason for me to do that.
~ Daveed Diggs
All those people who go to NASCAR and sing country & western songs and live in Tennessee, they totally ignore me, they don't come to my shows, I just don't exist for them and they don't exist for me.
~ Al Stewart
The aristocracy of Western Europe has absolutely tabooed silver in those countries and driven it away from there. Here it finds its only resting place.
~ Richard Parks Bland
I really don't despise anyone. But there is a list of a half dozen people I would prefer never to hear from or see again.
~ Graydon Carter
In my gym class, we had something called The Pit, this little alcove where we had to sit if we forgot our gym clothes. It was usually just the crippled kid, the pregnant girl, and me. It was pretty awkward, just hanging with all these freaks who didn't want to show their legs.
~ Danny McBride
You watch award shows, and not only are you not nominated, but you're not a presenter and haven't been invited to any of the parties.
~ Justine Bateman