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Quotes About Exclusion

There are no historic firsts, no grand gestures, no monuments or museums that undo generations of exclusions under law, policy, and practice, or that stop the expulsion. It makes me want to holler. Tell the truth. What is this symbolic republic?
~ Unknown
Those who lie outside citizenship and the gender binary had distinct rules applied to them, which were often mechanisms for violent domination.
~ Unknown
Indeed, the exclusion of Purpose is convenient to the elimination of conscience.
~ Unknown
She jerked the drapes shut, closing him out. Barricading
~ Iris Johansen
Literature is necessary to politics above all when it gives a voice to the one who doesn't have a voice, when it gives a name to the one who doesn't have a name, and especially to all that political language excludes or tends to exclude…Literature is like a ear that can hear more than Politics; Literature is like an eye that can perceive beyond the chromatic scale to which Politics is sensitive.
~ Italo Calvino
Se alzi un muro, pensa a ciò che resta fuori!
~ Italo Calvino
By now, from that real or hypothetical past of his, he is excluded; he cannot stop; he must go on to another city, where another of his pasts awaits him, or something perhaps that had been a possible future of his and is now someone else's present.
~ Italo Calvino
Those who concentrate on the subject's "real relationships" to the exclusion of phantasy and the internal world have of course abandoned psychoanalysis as a "science of the unconscious".
~ Unknown
The English were infuriating. Everything was designed to put an outsider at a disadvantage. If you had to ask, you didn't belong.
~ Daisy Goodwin
Nativism is a movement that promotes favored status for established citizens or residents of a nation over newcomers or immigrants. Nativists typically oppose immigration and support restricting the legal status of specific ethnic groups because they view them as harming the culture of the host nation.
~ Unknown
As I grew older I learned to be ashamed of being poor, too. It became humiliating, something I'd do everything I could to hide from the rest of the world. I developed an overwhelming sense of being excluded from everything. Everywhere you look you see people with things that you do not have, and it has a profound mental effect. That's mostly during the teenage years.
~ Unknown
inequality, exclusion, and duality became more marked in countries where skills were poorly distributed, and many services approximated the textbook ideal of impersonal, unfettered markets. The United States, where many workers are forced to hold multiple jobs in order to make an adequate living, remains the canonical example of this model.
~ Unknown
I realized that conventional views of Christian faith that I'd heard when I was growing up were simply made up - and I realized that many parts of the story of the early Christian movement had been left out.
~ Elaine Pagels
When I was a kid growing up, I lived in a little rural village called Woolton Hill, and the nearest town was Newbury. No bands played anywhere near us, so as much as I wanted to be on the grid and in the loop, I never was.
~ Jamie Hince
The message has to go to U.P. and Bihar that there is no space left in Mumbai for you. After destroying the city, the migrants will go back to their villages. But where will we go then?
~ Raj Thackeray
The causes of the China Incident were the exclusion and insult of Japan throughout China, the exclusion of Japanese goods, the persecution of Japanese residents in China, and the illegal violation of Japanese rights.
~ Hideki Tojo
Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife.
~ Iain Duncan Smith
The Immigration Act of 1924 closed our doors to virtually all non-European immigrants - a great wrong that was not rectified for decades.
~ Max Boot
Unlike excluding neoliberalism, which puts aside and discards millions of human beings and condemns them to survive on the leftovers from the banquet of the richest one per cent, the COVID-19 virus does not discriminate between them.
~ Miguel Diaz-Canel
We should recognise the mirrors of exclusion and mirrors of extremism in our society. The inequalities and disadvantages among visible minorities are also prevalent in the white working class. Political extremism and disengagement is mirrored between white and ethnic minority communities.
~ Sadiq Khan
There are many ways to be the odd girl out. Your pain can brief or lasting, visible to all or none, with one or many. One of the longest, quietest ways to be the odd girl out is to be friends with two girls who are closer to each other than to you.
~ Rachel Simmons
As we move into an era in which personal devices are seen as proxies for public needs, we run the risk that already-existing inequities will be further entrenched. Thus, with every big data set, we need to ask which people are excluded. Which places are less visible? What happens if you live in the shadow of big data sets?
~ Kate Crawford
This bereavement exclusion no longer exists, partly because of the timeline: Are people really supposed to be done grieving after two months? Can't grief last six months or a year or, in some form or another, an entire lifetime?
~ Lori Gottlieb
Wasn't that just the theme of her life? Marginalized on the outskirts.
~ Lori Wilde