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Quotes About Exclusion

How cruel the Penal Laws are which exclude me from a fair trial with men whom I look upon as so much my inferiors.
~ Daniel O'Connell
The arena of logic was made by men for men; it was expressly founded on the exclusion of what is not male, as well as what is not Greek, not Christian, nor Western, not Aryan.
~ Catharine MacKinnon
They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.
~ Charles Dickens
Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.
~ Mary Frances Berry
Every man is received in heaven who receives heaven in himself while in the world, and he is excluded who does not.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
His mind was good, but he only understood one or two things in the whole world—samurai movies and the Macintosh—and he understood them far, far too well. It was a worldview with no room for someone like Juanita.
~ Neal Stephenson
Paris to Jack and most others, then, was a network of deep trenches with vertical walls, and a few drafty battlements atop those walls—otherwise, the world's largest collection of closed and locked doors.
~ Neal Stephenson
The hotel demanded hard currency, which kept out the riffraff and the Reds.
~ Nelson DeMille
too] narrowly on the Mormon experience to the exclusion of forces operating within the larger society." "Notwithstanding," he proclaimed it "a valuable contribution to Mormon history. . . . [E]ssential reading for anyone interested in the development of Mormon racial policies.
~ Newell Bringhurst
Roughly two fifths of the world's population is effectively outside the financial system, without access to bank accounts, much less credit.
~ Niall Ferguson
That's the difference between golf and many other sports. You go to some other sporting events, they just leave you or give you the cold shoulder and move on.
~ Bernhard Langer
There are multiple levels of 'we' and multiple groups that can constitute this idea of who we are. We need to be aware of who we are including and excluding.
~ Uzodinma Iweala
When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them.
~ Luc Ferrari
I always dream about other musicians. And they're never interested in hanging out with us. It's like being at school and the bigger boys don't want to play with you!
~ Chris Martin
Paradoxically, by insisting on engaging with Muslims as a separate group, the authorities make many of them feel even more excluded.
~ Munira Mirza
The exclusion of girls from education is an issue of justice. But it's also an issue of economics because it's holding families, communities, and nations back. The chiefs are often a bridge between the traditional and the modern world and are very powerful implements to change.
~ Ann Cotton
When people are left out, we're naturally going to focus on that, if it's 47 million people who don't have health insurance, if it's 23,000 people who die every year because they lack access to health care for something that's easily treatable.
~ Tim Kaine
Alors que les hommes généralement se contentent de croire, les philosophes veulent savoir ; mais, pour savoir, il faut juger, critiquer, mesurer, exclure, imaginer, bref effectuer un travail de l'esprit dont les religions et les idéologies permettent l'économie.
~ Christian Godin
Unfortunately, I'm not the greatest catch. None of us are. We're outcasts for a reason.
~ Christine Feehan
That's what makes most places utterly impossible - the people. They're so completely hateful. They want everybody to conform to their beastly narrow little way of looking at things. And if one happens not to, one's treated as something unspeakable. And then there's nothing for it but to leave at once.
~ Christopher Isherwood
Tommy had felt alone in a crowd before, even inferior to everyone in a crowd, but now he felt, well, different. It wasn't just the clothes and the make up, it was the humanity. He wasn't part of it. Heightened senses or not, he felt like he had his nose pressed against the window, looking in. The problem was, it was the window of a donut shop.
~ Christopher Moore
National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same.
~ Umberto Eco
The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality, an exclusion. Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.
~ Umberto Eco
Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.
~ Umberto Eco