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Quotes About Exclusion

For some, religion is the cement that seals shut their door on the world
~ Carol Shields
Time was when my little feet were the only ones welcome in the establishment, from the chorus girls' dressing room to the owners' penthouse. However, the newcomer—who has no obvious attractions other than the dubious ability to scream like a harem of Siamese in heat at odd hours of the night—is the center of an epidemic of cooing that leaves myself cold.
~ Carole Nelson Douglas
Wer der Norm entspricht, kann dem Irrturm erliegen, dass es sie nicht gibt. Wer der Mehrheit ähnelt, kann dem Irrturm erliegen, dass die Ebenbildlichkeit mit der die Norm setzenden Mehrheit keine Rolle spielt. Wer der Norm entspricht, dem oder der fällt oft nicht auf, wie sie anderer ausgrenzt oder degradiert. Wer der Norm entspricht, kann sich oft ihre Wirkung nicht vorstellen, weil die eigene Akzeptanz als selbstverständlich angenommen wird.
~ Carolin Emcke
This was the summer when for a long time she had not been a member. She belonged to no club and was a member of nothing in the world. Frankie had become an unjoined person who hung around in the doorways, and she was afraid.
~ Carson McCullers
From literature the African was excluded altogether. He was not supposed to have expressed any thought worth knowing. The philosophy in the African proverbs and in the rich folklore of that continent was ignored to give preference to that developed on the distant shores of the Mediterranean.
~ Carter G. Woodson
From the teaching of science the Negro was likewise eliminated. The beginnings of science in various parts of the Orient were mentioned, but the Africans' early advancement in this field was omitted.
~ Carter G. Woodson
Is there some particular reason that you're here?" ... "Not this again." "Not what again?" said Clary. "Every time I annoy him, he retreats into his No Mundanes Allowed tree house." Simon pointed at Jace.
~ Cassandra Clare
aliens in blood, aliens in language, and aliens in religion," as Lord Lyndhurst said of the Irish
~ George Megalogenis
Before you are admitted to British citizenship you are not even considered a natural human being. I looked up the word natural (na'tural) in the Pocket Oxford Dictionary (p. 251); it says: Of or according to or provided by nature, physically existing, innate, instinctive, normal, not miraculous or spiritual or artificial or conventional.... Note that before you obtain British citizenship, they simply doubt that you are provided by nature.
~ George Mikes
No place in England where everyone can go is considered respectable.
~ George Moore
Always the wall, keeping him apart, this man who was a first-name friend to everyone and an intimate to none. And on it, it was almost as if there were a sign that read, THIS FAR YOU GO, and no further.
~ George R.R. Martin
Hiçbir ?ey bilmiyorsun Jon Kar. H?rs?z olan sizlersiniz. Bütün dünyay? ald?n?z ve özgür insanlar? d??ar?da b?rakmak için Sur'u in?a ettiniz.
~ George R.R. Martin
No one looked at him. No one spoke to him. No one paid him any mind. He was surrounded by men sworn to House Lannister, a vast host twenty thousand strong, and yet he was alone.
~ George R.R. Martin
descendant of one of the First Families of Virginia. He held that the only way to tell the pure whites from the imitation whites, was to study their family trees. He claimed that such a nationwide investigation would disclose the various non-Nordic strains in the population. Laws, said he, should then be passed forbidding these strains from mixing or marrying with the pure strains that had produced such fine specimens of mankind as Mr. Snobbcraft and himself.
~ George S. Schuyler
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
~ George Washington
The key to understanding complicated things is knowing what not to look at.
~ Gerald Jay Sussman
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
~ George Eliot
Include me out.
~ Sam Goldwyn
All the people like us are We, And everyone else is They.
~ Rudyard Kipling
There is but one art, to omit.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
When you find nothing... it means you're eliminating what surrounds the something.
~ J.D. Robb
How many people are there left who are neither locked up nor standing guard at the gate?
~ J.M. Coetzee
To be denied was like getting shut out of a Public Park.
~ J.R. Ward
Beth's not on that train? Nope. She's not even in that station, that town, or that part of whatever country your metaphor lives in.
~ J.R. Ward