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Quotes About Exclusion

those who belong properly to books, and to whom books, perhaps, do not quite so properly belong.
~ William Carlos Williams
Lying there in the darkness, he knew he was an outcast. " Ã¢â'¬â"¢Cos I had some sense.
~ William Golding
We don't want you,' said Jack, flatly. 'Three's enough.' Piggy's glasses flashed. 'I was with him when he found the conch. I was with him before anyone else was.
~ William Golding
I do not ask autocratic exclusion of films," Crafts said, trying to seem less fanatical in the press, "but only such supervision as the Government gives to all other great financial interests.
~ William J. Mann
The racial laws which excluded the Jews from the German community seemed to a foreign observer to be a shocking throwback to primitive times, but since the Nazi racial theories exalted the Germans as the salt of the earth and the master race they were far from being unpopular. A
~ William L. Shirer
I'm like an old record--Be my guest is the signature song; Please go away, always on side B.
~ Chloe Hooper
He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not.
~ Chris Bohjalian
I lock my door upon myself, And bar them out; but who shall wall Self from myself, most loathed of all?
~ Christina Rossetti
Le mystère de l'Autre se trouve résolu. L'Autre c'est celui que l'Un désigne comme tel. L'Un c'est celui qui a le pouvoir de distinguer, de dire qui est qui : qui est « Un », faisant partie du « Nous », et qui est « Autre » et n'en fait pas partie ; celui qui a le pouvoir de cataloguer, de classer, bref de nommer. (p. 19)
~ Christine Delphy
Sometimes when you are in a foreign country it feels like everyone is in on a joke against you.
~ Heidi Julavits
the categories of Jewish people excluded often at that time mirrored the profile of non-ethnic social and political cleansing elsewhere.
~ Helen Graham
The people who lived beside the river for thousands of years, and whose history was intertwined with that landscape, have been very effectively excluded from ts recorded narrative.
~ Helen Humphreys
Peace, then, be unto everyone who becomes a teacher of peace. For peace is the acknowledgment of perfect purity from which no one is excluded.
~ Helen Schucman
Assim, a integração e a participação são a obsessão dos não-participantes, daqueles que sobrevivem entre os fragmentos da sociedade possível e das ruínas do passado: excluídos da cidade, às portas do urbano […]
~ Henri Lefebvre
Sometimes I would get invited to a party or to go out to dinner by one of them and I would decline. Part of me wanted to go, but those kind of outings always made me feel even more alienated than usual. Hearing them talk made me feel lonely and hateful at the same time. Lonely because I didn't fit in, never did. When I was reminded, it hurt. And hateful because it reaffirmed what I already knew, that I was alone and on the outside.
~ Henry Rollins
I feel like a visitor that got left behind by his ride.
~ Henry Rollins
I wear my sunglasses. Keeps you on one side and me on the other.
~ Henry Rollins
The artists of various sects, like the theologians of the various sects, mutually exclude and destroy themselves.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Treated by his own people as one of them yet not one of them, he couldn't help but be aware of the contradictions inherent in a society that was supposed to be his, but seemed to have no place for him.
~ Lesley Hazleton
It is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. So we don't. Rather than rely on race, we use our criminal justice system to label people of color 'criminals' and then engage in all the practices we supposedly left behind.
~ Michelle Alexander
The global capitalist project, which we are all a part of, leaves people behind. I don't know what the answers are - I don't think any actor does - but figuring it out through entertainment can be very useful.
~ Brian Gleeson
Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don't fit in?
~ Margaret Atwood
Whenever you exclude God and the value system that He represents out of the equation of a life, of a family, or a culture, you create a spiritual vacuum. Nature abhors a vacuum. It must be filled with something.
~ Tony Evans
There are stereotypes that have been out there for a long time that tell girls that their main asset, the main thing that they are valued for, is their appearance and also that it's to the exclusion of anything else.
~ Danica McKellar