Quotes About Exclusion

In some of the L.A. clubs, people can act too cool to get into your music. That can get to be a bit much.

All forms of consensus are by necessity based on acts of exclusion

As is often the case, an individual who has been racially oppressed may be blind that the same mechanisms of exclusion and denigration are at work in gender oppression.

Of all the forms of injustice, that is the most egregious which makes the circumstances of sex a reason for excluding one half of mankind from all those paths which lead to usefulness and honor

One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed to him on every countenance by curiosity, indifference, aversion, or pity, and in so far as he is human enough to need free and equal communication and feel the lack of it, he suffers pain and loss of a kind and degree which others can only faintly imagine, and for the most part ignore.

Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see behind a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space, feels itself excluded.

We proved these people were wrongly removed. this was a Jim Crow operation. Except instead of white sheets they used spreadsheets.

In that moment he understood it had never been a game. He understood that he was never going to be one of them.

For as long as I can remember, I've been out in the cold, nose up to the glass, looking in. I may not get to come inside, Jack. But I'm sure as hell not gonna let the wolves in at everyone else. No. That's one thing I'm good for.

Now that hurts. I'm sorry to say it, Cyprus, but you're off my Christmas-card list." Greener checked his sheet. "Love to shoot the shit with you all day, farm boy, but I gots some grits to deliver." Smiling, he rode the elevator out of view.

like a spinster aunt left out at a family reunion. From 'Or She Dies'.

I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.

Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.

I wouldn't want to belong to a club that would have me as a member

Even the intellectual crowd will have none of me. Physically, I look like one of them. Graying at the temples, I walk with a slight limp and wear thick glasses.

Go, and never darken my towels again.

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

I do not want to belong to any club that would accept me as a member.

L'uomo socialissimo è l'uomo segregatissimo. Casa mai vuota d'ospiti è già figura di Gulag.

The point is that being a minority isn't only about the color of your skin or your religion. it's about not fitting in, being on the outside.

No one wanted him; he was outcast from life's feast.

Die, Motherfuckers held what is called a group-conscience meeting, and Eddy was told to hit the bricks and never come back unless he wanted his head shoved up a Harley-Davidson exhaust pipe.

When a drunk gets eighty-sixed out of a bar, he's not supposed to buy drinks for the people still inside.

The evolution of sentience reflects the constant movement between those two poles. Evil—the dark side—won't be eradicated until it has been discarded as an option for acquiring power, subjugating would-be opponents, or offsetting feelings of anger, envy, or exclusion. Where victims of injustice exist, the dark side finds initiates.