Quotes About Exclusion

A red rose absorbs all colors but red; red is therefore the one color that it is not.

But the moment you point at a difference, you enter, regardless of age, an already existing system of differences, a network of identities, all of them ultimately arbitrary and unrelated to your intentions, none of them a matter of your choice. The moment you other someone, you other yourself. When I idiotically pointed at Almir's non-existent difference, I expelled myself from my raja.

Aquel hombre para el que todos en aquel pueblo vivían, se movía siempre en una burbuja de vacío. Como si un precepto tácito ordenara al mundo que lo dejaran vivir solo.

And she, Isabel, had gone along with this and all the time what was happening was she was becoming increasingly possessive of Jamie without ever having to acknowledge it. Now there was another woman, a girl really, and there was an obvious intimacy between them, which would exclude her as it would have to do, and that would be the end of everything.

Hate was a welcoming host and would always encourage you to join its parties.

He came over the border at night, as he had no papers. It is not easy, Mma, to have no papers. If you are a person without papers, then you are nothing. Even cattle have papers these days, Mma—I'm joking, of course, but that is what it can feel like to have no papers.

Random, meaningless groups can adopt an us-versus-them mentality.

The cafeteria made him feel like an observer rather than a participant in the high school experience.

Exclusion is common behavior. But that doesn't make it unchangeable. And that doesn't mean that anything is wrong with the cafeteria fringe.

the competitive exclusion principle.

According to the competitive exclusion principle, if a reinforcing feedback loop rewards the winner of a competition with the means to win further competitions, the result will be the elimination of all but a few competitors. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

The minute your group gets so big you don't know anybody in it and they don't know you, there's hell to pay.

I'm the only one outside of Icarus

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so." —Gore Vidal

Go on Facebook or Instagram or Twitter, and what do you see? Heated, vitriolic arguments. Fake news. Photos taken at parties you weren't invited to. The perfect, curated lives of others that make your own life seem lacking by comparison

Parisian arrogance meant that nobody was important, nobody counted.

the perennial outsider with his nose to the window, looking in on a world from which he felt excluded.

In 2016 when Peter Thiel endorsed Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland he immediately became a non-gay in the eyes of the most prominent gay magazine in America. To have gone to the right – and to the Donald Trump right at that – was such an egregious fault that Advocate excommunicated Thiel from the church of gay. Two years later precisely the same pattern played out among black Americans. After

And as the history of the church revealed in Acts shows, their central debate was over whether or not the Gentiles had to include their children in the New Covenant by means of circumcision—their debate was not whether the Jewish Christians had to start excluding their children.

It is a thoroughly anti-Christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides in the ministry, to the exclusion of the people.

Your life isn't made up of people who aren't in it.

You build a wall to keep something unwanted out … or to hold something precious in.

cross that person off your invitation list.

Between 1978 and 1984, pro-life Democrats and pro-choice Republicans were purged from their parties.