Quotes About Exclusion

So, back in the day, weird people threatened the strength of the tribe. If you weren't good for making food, shelter, or babies, then you were tossed out on your own." "But we're not primitive like that anymore." "Oh, yes, we are. Weird people still get banished." "You mean weird people like

It's a really, really hard life when you don't have a document that actually gives you a name and a face.

As we grow up, it feels like you should either invite people into your life or not. There should be fewer and fewer instances of friends you 'can only take in small doses.'

It just goes to show, if you try to ruin someone's life, it only gets better. You just don't get to be a part of it.

Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life.

Nobody tells me anything.

what is art to the dilettante but the initiation of the sacred few to the exclusion of the profane crowd?...

Insomuch as Marxism eventually came to dominate social theory in some important regions of post-war European social theory, this resulted in the further exclusion of environmental issues from the discipline of sociology (Cotgrove 1991; Martell 1994).

The Naturalization Act of 1870 expanded naturalization in the United States to "white persons and persons of African descent," but other nonwhites remained excluded.

The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act went further, barring the immigration of all Chinese laborers.

invisibility is a luxury.

No pertenecer a ninguna parte era como ser invisible.

It being by him removed from the common state nature hath placed it in, it hath by this labour something annexed to it that excludes the common right of other men.

To me, "manners" meant sleeping linesmen at Wimbledon, and bowing and curtsying to rich people with hereditary titles who didn't pay any taxes. Manners meant tennis clubs that demanded you wear white clothes, and cost too much money to join, and excluded blacks and Jews and God knows who else. Manners meant the hush-hush atmosphere at tennis matches, where excitement of any kind was frowned upon.

They'd listen silenty, with grave faces: but once they'd turn to each other they'd smile cruelly. He couldn't have it both ways. He'd put himself outside and outside they'd make him stay. Neither brutality nor complaining could force a way in.

They were talking about a certain hangout and Johnny said, "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."

If you want to destroy something in this life, be it acne, a blemish or the human soul, all you need to do is to surround it with thick walls. It will dry up inside.

Prof stood apart from his family.

To be on a pedestal is to be in a corner.

And because no one answered or cared and a conversation went on without her she felt profoundly lonely, suspecting once more for herself a particular doom of exclusion. Something of the trees in their intimacy of shadow was shared by the husband and wife and their host in the tree-shadowed room. She thought of love with its gift of importance. "I must break in on all this," she thought as she looked around the room.

That our understanding of theology is based largely on formal, academic treatises has resulted in excluding women from the theological conversation, marginalizing their theological ideas, and impoverishing the theological tradition as a whole.

My family stood right in front of me, talking and smiling. I felt like I was viewing one of those cheesy ad shots for camera companies. The ones I looked at and thought, fake, because no one's family ever looked that happy. Yet, the perfect family moment bloomed right before my eyes, and I wasn't a part of it.

We were tolerated. and that is unforgivable. If you cannot accept a man wholeheartedly, then you should have the fortitude to repudiate him. Kwame in "The two hearts of Kwasi Boachi

Het is verstandig bang te zijn voor elke groep waartoe je niet behoort.