Quotes About Exclusion

Miss Manners' attitude is that it is better to bar the door to unwanted guests than to back them out through it.

The demands of war provided Hitler with just the excuse he was looking for to rid the regime not only of Jews, but also of Gypsies, socialists, the disabled and mentally ill, homosexuals, Poles, communists, or anyone else who did not fit the National Socialist ideal. The elimination of those deemed undesirable became an issue of prime importance.

Bolivia is a majority indigenous nation, but that majority has always been excluded.

I think that all music is inherently political, and, at the same time, I'm interested in the politics of inclusion not exclusion. So I think that my goal is to make music that anybody can hear and feel moved by.

Stay out of the loop, the club, the inner circle.

I want to question what the outside is and who defines it. I often find those that are considered to be on the outside extremely inspiring.

Even Instagram has become a way to show off your girl group and make other girls feel left out.

The concept of cultural appropriation is nothing less than an intellectual fence: Keep out.

The little Napoleons in UMNO try to keep out people who are more intelligent than themselves.

It is a world of extremes, which can be characterised most clearly in terms of exclusion. That means political exclusion, whereby the rights of citizens are marginalised by the interests of big business: George W Bush's environmental policy, for example, is clearly formulated in the interests of U.S. energy companies.

The members of the Massachusetts Court removed Anne because her moral certitude was too much like their own.

She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.

She said it was because I wasn't Jewish, but I knew the truth. She was laughing behind my back at me. I know she was. She made me unable to function. They all did. They all laughed at me.

My heart is its own fierce country where no one else is welcome.

Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.

Has a world composed of "us" and "not us" been invaded at last?

My father suggested in an early draft that the hipster "became a criminal because he was not allowed to become a citizen.

Go away, the old buildings said. There is no place for you here. You are not wanted. We have secrets.

A world she despised, could not comprehend, nor defend herself against. a world that did not want her

When we reached the auditorium, the whole town was there except Atticus and the ladies worn out from decorating, and the usual outcasts and shut-ins.

the ensuing contest to determine relative distances and respective prowess only made me feel left out again, as I was untalented in this area.

Jem said Mr. Avery misfigured, Dill said he must drink a gallon a day, and the ensuing contest to determine relative distances and respective prowess only made me feel left out again, as I was untalented in this area.

From now on it'll be everybody less one.

Everybody feels safe belonging not to the excluded minority but to the excluding majority. You think, Oh, I'm glad that's not me. It's basically the same in all periods in all societies. If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of troubling things.