Quotes About Exclusion

Las herejías son siempre expresión del hecho concreto de que existen excluidos.

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La política, amenazada por el terrorismo, ha dado vida a los miembros de una casta condenada a no saber nada del país que debe gobernar. Casta sí, pero en el sentido de los parias indios, despojados del contacto con los demás seres humanos.

It means that greed and jealousy continue to rule the world, and people spend their substance building fences to keep the rest of the world out.

it has become more important than ever to look at the question of nationalism—of nationalistic contempt and nationalistic arrogance.

History also is mostly the story of noncitizenship.

Javier was born in a prison (...) he grew up to think himself without the pale of society and despaired of ever entering it. He noticed that society closes its doors without pity on two classes of men, those who attack it and those who guard it. He could choose between these two classes only.

But, it was a lie. For people like us, anyway. Folks who are from the wrong place, or have the wrong color skin, or speak the wrong language, or pray to the wrong God.

Being alone in a crowd is the worst, I think. Everyone belongs somewhere except you.

That box there. The empty one. Separate the Jews born in France from those born elsewhere. We are only interested in foreign-born Jews. Men, women, and children." "Why?" "They're Jews. Who cares? Now get to work.

I have my FaceBook. And if you're naughty, I'll banish you from my kingdom on there.

The iguana was not invited.

To be accepted, honored, loved, like someone's child. And since they couldn't have any of it, it all took the form of spite. Anyone who has ever been excluded can understand what they felt, and no one has ever been quite so excluded as they.

For years I have lived with words and terms that divide people, words that mark who is to be exterminated and who is to be spared.

Hospital: warehouse of the used and the superfluous, the half-here and the half-there.

Not dancing well, I never danced at all--and how grievously has my heart ached when others where in the full enjoyment of that conversation which I had no right even to partake.

I swear to the Lord I still can't see Why Democracy means Everybody but me.

Is this some manly bonding thing I can't be a part of? Are you getting matching haircuts?

Every time I annoy him he retreats into his No Mundanes Allowed tree house." Simon pointed at Jace.

the basic theme is the dichotomy of womanhood. the woman cut in two. every society creates laws to exercise power over women and exclude certain parts of the woman

Omaha is no place for anybody.

They snickered behind her back in tones that sent up prickly hedges all around their tight huddles of lace dresses and ribboned curls.

Doesn't sound like anyone cares about Rightful until they want to kick someone else out of the chair.

Artistic othering has to do with innovation, invention, and change, upon which cultural health and diversity depend and thrive. Social othering has to do with power, exclusion, and privilege, the centralizing of a noun against which otherness is measured, meted out, marginalized. My focus is the practice of the former by people subjected to the latter.