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Quotes About Exclusion

I couldn't wait to be, you know, a Black Panther. Of course they wouldn't let me join.
~ David Alan Grier
At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia.
~ Philip Zimbardo
I think that's the best thing about being black is that we find a way to make our own communities and always give room for people to pull up to our tables. We always provide a way for other people from different walks of life to come into the communities that we have built because we're so used to being excluded.
~ Brian Tyree Henry
Society is better off without certain people.
~ Bernhard Goetz
For me, I feel like horror space has always been a space of the other, even when it's not people of color or black people. That has always drawn me to it, and I've been a big fan.
~ Misha Green
Billions of people are being left behind by economic growth.
~ Winnie Byanyima
What 'Clandestino' is talking about is problems of borders, and more and more hermetic borders all around the world.
~ Manu Chao
I remember bringing some of my other friends to our table, and everyone at our table would look at them and ask me, 'What are you doing? Why'd you bring him?' It was annoying high school stuff that still goes on now. My high school was really bad.
~ Zack Greinke
Bouncers suck.
~ Hunx
Sudan is not Arab enough for Arabs and not African enough for Africans.
~ Leila Aboulela
What I realized the moment I got to Oxford was that someone like me could not really be part of it. I mean, I could make a success there, I could even be perhaps accepted into it, but I would never feel it was my place. It's the summit of something else. It's distilled Englishness.
~ Stuart Hall
I've tried to distance myself from the RISE initiative based off a gut feeling I had. I've done little things here and there, but I wasn't included in the Super Bowl thing they did, and it's something I felt in my gut from the beginning. I respect the work that they've done, but things aren't aligning for me so I try to stay away from it.
~ Kenny Stills
Just as the creative artist is not allowed to choose, neither is he permitted to turn his back on anything: a single refusal, and he is cast out of the state of grace and becomes sinful all the way through.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
With a little ingenuity and vision, he had made it all but impossible for anyone in the squadron to talk to him, which was just fine with everyone, he noticed, since no one wanted to talk to him anyway.
~ Joseph Heller
It was remarkable to Julia—(it did not hurt or offend her, but only amused her)—how Ryan's family managed to take photographs or videos of themselves that excluded her.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
The exclusion of those who fail to conform to unspoken normative requirements of the subject.
~ Judith Butler
subject is constituted through the force of exclusion and abjection
~ Judith Butler
Zira, lezbiyen-gösterenine baÅŸvurularak neyin kastedildiÄŸi her zaman için kesin bir belirsizlik içinde kalm??t?r; zaten onun anlamland?r?lmas? her zaman için bir derece kontrol d???d?r, ayr?ca özgüllüÄŸü de ancak, kendi bütünsellik iddias?n? çürütmeye yarayan d??lamalarla ay?rt edilebilen bir olgudur.
~ Judith Butler
İçin fiilen d??a dönüÅŸtüÄŸü d??k? geçitleri iç ile d?? aras?ndaki s?n?r? bulan?klaÅŸt?r?r, d??k?lama iÅŸlevi böylece baÅŸka kimlik farkl?laÅŸt?rma türleri için model teÅŸkil eder. Neticede Ötekilerin boklaÅŸmas? bu ÅŸekilde olur.
~ Judith Butler
A small wedding is not necessarily one to which very few people are invited. It is one to which the person you are addressing is not invited.
~ Judith Martin
Historically, women have either been excluded from the process of creating the definitions of what is considered art or allowed to participate only if we accept and work within existing mainstream designations. If women have no real role as women in the process of defining art, then we are essentially prevented from helping to shape cultural symbols.
~ Judy Chicago
The claim is the very antithesis of Ezra, who is busy excluding, separating, and driving out those who are carriers of abomination. Ezra has given voice to an exclusivism that closely echoes the old practice of Pharaoh. The good news is that this posture did not contain all of emerging Judaism. The poet of Isaiah 56 asserts otherwise!
~ Walter Brueggemann
But the pull of God's largeness summons all of us, often through the words and presence of "the other." The old teaching of exclusion cannot fully protect us from God's pull to be a neighbor.
~ Walter Brueggemann
Quererse uno mismo, despreciando o ignorando a los demás, es presunción y exclusión; querer a los demás, despreciándose uno mismo, es carencia de amor propio.
~ Walter Riso