Quotes About Exclusion

The explosion of opportunities for litigation gave access and therefore power to many formerly excluded groups, beginning with African Americans. For this reason, litigation and the right to sue has been jealously guarded by many on the progressive left. But it also entailed large costs in terms of the quality of public policy.

National identity is frequently formed in deliberate opposition to other groups and therefore serves to perpetuate conflict.

Some people are so sensitive they feel snubbed if an epidemic overlooks them.

Nos hemos convertido en un caso de manual: la única especie animal, junto con la rata topo, que extermina a sus propios individuos.

For example,' Tess continued, 'Christmas just gone, they went skiing. I mean, I don't ski, I couldn't have afforded the trip and I couldn't have gone with Em being so little. But I wasn't invited anyway. So it did mean I didn't have plans for Christmas.

Die größte öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit erhält hier die fundamentalistische Reaktion, die eine Versöhnung zwischen Glaube und Wissen prinzipiell ausschließt und die auf dem Vorrang des Glaubens vor dem Wissen beharrt.

It's nice to see that cannibalism has been so logically ruled out as an option," Raoden said dryly.

I try to hate everyone. That way, I don't risk leaving out anyone who is particularly deserving.

Better for everyone to not have to deal with me

Maybe looking away is about privilege. I need to think harder and longer about my choices and recognize that choosing whom I see and whom I don't see is one of the most hurtful functions of privilege.

Alejarnos de las personas a las que conocemos y queremos por el hecho de apoyar a unos desconocidos a los que en realidad no conocemos, apenas creemos y desde luego no queremos, y que con toda seguridad no estarán ahí para acompañarnos a quimioterapia o traernos comida cuando nuestros hijos estén enfermos... ese es el lado oscuro de la segregación. La familia es precisamente el grupo que la mayoría hemos escogido para gestionar nuestra vida, no para excluirlo de ella.

I've lived my entire life on the outside.

It doesn't matter if the group is a church or a gang or a sewing circle or masculinity itself, asking members to dislike, disown, or distance themselves from another group of people as a condition of "belonging" is always about control and power. I think we have to question the intentions of any group that insists on disdain toward other people as a membership requirement. It may be disguised as belonging, but real belonging doesn't necessitate disdain.

It doesn't matter if the group is a church or a gang or a sewing circle or masculinity itself, asking members to dislike, disown, or distance themselves from another group of people as a condition of "belonging" is always about control and power.

More and more people were being judged useless and were being flung to the margins of society, where they were destined to look back enviously at the few who still had reasons to be happy. He

Eliminating someone from an investigation is just as important as getting a positive lead.

You must come to Lockleigh again, said Miss Molyneux, very sweetly, to Isabel, ignoring this remark of Isabel's friend. Isabel looked into her quiet eyes a moment, and for that moment seemed to see in their grey depths the reflexion of everything she had rejected in rejecting Lord Warburton—the peace, the kindness, the honour, the possessions, a deep security and a great exclusion. She kissed Miss Molyneux and then she said: I'm afraid I can never come again.

It had freely been noted for him that he might be received as a dog among skittles, but that was on the basis of the old quantity.

I don't see why I should regard what is done here," said Bessie Alden. "Why should I suffer the restrictions of a society of which I enjoy none of the privileges?

wasteland resembling those vast areas of Australia where the dodo bird, shunned by other feathered species of the bush, forlornly buries his head in the sand and whistles out the other end.

Five or ten years ago, when it was clear the Internet was becoming a mainstream phenomenon, it was equally clear that a lot of people were being left out and could be left behind.

I head a Salt-n-Pepa song one time, where they named every rapper in New York. And they didn't name us!

Nobody would take checks from Indians, nobody would give them any credit, and nobody would let them drink in the bars. There was a rudeness, a brusqueness, with which the Indians were treated constantly. At a very young age, that had entered my consciousness.

To expose the hardships experienced by children who are deprived of the right to attend school, Camfed has produced a series of films about educational exclusion. 'Every Child Belongs in School' provides a glimpse into the lives of children who have been forced by poverty to leave school at a very young age and take a difficult life path.