Quotes About Exclusion

Redlining went beyond FHA-backed loans and spread to the entire mortgage industry, which was already rife with racism, excluding black people from most legitimate means of obtaining a mortgage.

In 2006, I entered the presidential palace in the main square of La Paz as the first indigenous president of Bolivia. Our government, under the slogan 'Bolivia Changes,' is committed to ending the colonialism, racism and exclusion that many of our people lived under for many centuries.

Many in our increasingly secular culture want to chase Christians out of the public square altogether.

As an indigenous leader from Bolivia, I know what exclusion looks like. Before 1952, my people were not allowed to even enter the main squares of Bolivia's cities, and there were almost no indigenous politicians in government until the late 1990s.

I don't do stairs. And I don't do groups.

In high school I was an outcast... I wasn't cool to hang out with. I ate my lunch in a bathroom stall because that was the one place I could go where I wouldn't been seen.

Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact.

I'm not fit company for man or beast.

There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American.  The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.  We are a nation, not a hodge-podge of foreign nationalities.  We are a people, and not a polyglot boarding house.

This was not completely true. I had run so fast that I still had a stitch in my side, but I did not want to be left out of their confraternity of guilt.

The roster of progressives who advocated exclusion of hereditary inferiors reads like a Who's Who of American economic reform.

I've been to so many parties in England and in America that's exactly like that, where you're kind of, like, seen as Other. When you're just living your life, and you have to adopt the Other in order to understand and navigate the society.

People would get up and leave so they would not have to sit anywhere near me.

It's a clique that I've never been a part of. It's not like I identify them in a negative way.

I'm Japanese, and I'm also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.

The 'New York Times' is not reviewing books by non-white people.

You could shut life out. If you didn't answer the door to it, how was it going to get in?

She liked time at the edges of things -- the edge of the crowd, the edge of the pool, the edge of the wood -- where all must pass but none quite belonged.

I helped those in, who were locked out, others i helped keep out, what couldn't be let in, so that they could sleep without nightmares.

That to choose on Abraham, one Moses, one David, was also to reject all the others that might have been

If a concept or principle finds its place in an explanatory theory, it cannot be excluded on methodological grounds.

Nobody gets in to see the wizard. Not nobody.

It's seems that the moment you left town, they put a wall around the place, and you will never manage to vault over it and get back into the city again.

For more than five hundred years the cardinal problem in defining Europe has centred on the inclusion or exclusion of Russia.