Quotes About Exclusion

Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.

The imperfect squares would be sorted out of his bowl before he poured in the milk.

Japan will never change. It will never ever integrate gaijin, and my darling, here you will always be a gaijin and never Japanese. Book 3, p467

This place Augusta National rejects me like a skin transplant.

And a town not too far from where you live has a law that bars me from coming within five miles of its borders

Disability is something imposed on top of our impairments by the way we are unnecessarily isolated and excluded from full participation in society

The proliferation of these self-conscious groups, some of which (such as seniors-only enclaves) virtually excluded others, added to a perception by the early 1970s that the United States was becoming both a claimant society and an ever more openly balkanized culture.

By 1970, exclusion was so complete that fewer than 500 black families lived in white suburban neighborhoods in the entire Chicago metropolitan area, and most of those were in just five or six suburbs.

Many sundown towns had not a single black household as late as the 2000 census, and some still openly exclude to this day.

From Myakka City, Florida, to Kennewick, Washington, the nation is dotted with thousands of all-white towns that are (or were until recently) all white on purpose.

Any telling of history requires choices as to what is included and what is left out and is therefore by definition an interpretation.

There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and these fashions exclude all but a few genuinely different possibilities in city dwelling construction at any one time.

I lived near Santa Cruz for ten years, and the whole time, it bothered me what an exclusionary definition of 'inclusion' was in force. Social censure was applied to those who expressed unpopular or uncomfortable ideas.

At some point or another, everyone has felt unseen and unheard and marginalized.

I always think that there's a weight of prejudice from the past that gay people perhaps carry around with them. Even if it doesn't exist so much around them, they still have a feeling of being excluded, and perceived prejudice is almost as unsettling as actual prejudice.

Serbia has become a pariah nation, untouchable like a leper.

When we talk about communities, we seldom discuss the margins. But for every person nestled comfortably in the bosom of a community, there is someone else on the outskirts, feeling ambivalent. Ambiguous. Excluded. Unwilling or unable to come more fully into the fold.

The mark which has dominated all my work is this longing for life, this sense of exclusion, which doesn't lessen but augments this love of life.

Those who are excluded from meaningful work are, by an large, excluded from meaningful play.

The proliferation of bans fuels stereotypes and discriminates against a community.

Academia is ruled by a pathological herd mentality. Stick out, and be prepared to get ostracized.

I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.

By definition, of course, we believe the person with a stigma is not quite human. On this assumption we exercise varieties of discrimination, through which we effectively, if often unthinkingly, reduce his life chances.

The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television.