Quotes About Exclusion

Come, drunks and drug-takers; come perverts unnerved! Receive the laurel, given, though late, on merit; to whom and wherever deserved. Parochial punks, trimmers, nice people, joiners true-blue, Get the hell out of the way of the laurel. It is deathless And it isn't for you.

All around are walls, for protection." Then her finger stopped its movement and rested on the soft center of her palm. "This is the pale." "So if you're beyond the pale…" "You're an outsider," said Myrna. "A threat." She slowly closed her hand.

Not everyone makes the boat, she thought.

Three short words, but potent. They more than anything had launched a thousand ships, a thousand attacks. One of us. A circle drawn. And closed. A boundary marked. Those inside and those not.

Surely you can feel it. Do you ever feel lost, as though people are speaking a foreign language, as though there's something going on which everyone else gets, but you don't?

Josie said] I just ... I don't like the way you treat kids who aren't like us, all right? Just because you don't want to hang out with losers doesn't mean you have to torture them, does it? Yeah, it does, Matt said. Because if there isn't a them, there can't be an us. His eyes narrowed. You should know that better than anyone.

males conspicuously leaving their mark to let others know where they weren't welcome.

Trixie seesawed between wishing everyone would leave her alone and wondering why everyone treated her like a leper.

Isolation, I think, is the worst thing in the world.

Everything in the room seemed turned away from me in sullen resistance, averthing itself from my unwelcome return.

In school, the other girls formed alliances which always excluded me. They called me names; I will not repeat them here. They made fun of my unshapely body, my pale skin, my untamed hair. I do not know why I was born this way.

My group ridiculed and made fun of anyone who was not like us, and that comprised almost everyone! People with negative identity drop out and stand on the sidelines of life, making fun of everyone else. In actuality I was terrified of life.

Dear sidewalk, Please get wider...Sincerely, third friend walking behind feeling excluded.

When GOD is taking you to that next level, there's NOT going to be room for everyone on that journey..

You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing

I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you -- Nobody -- too? Then there's a pair of us? Don't tell! they'd advertise -- you know!

That awkward moment when your friends make plans right in front of you and the plans don't include you...

What we don't include is as important as what we do include.

Because of our interconnectedness we all know that extreme poverty and exclusionary practices are violations against the basic dignity of people.

Education, awareness and prevention are the key, but stigmatisation and exclusion from family is what makes people suffer most

It is in nobody's interest that groups should find themselves excluded from society.

I'm on the very blackest part of the black list.

When you get locked up, you get locked out.

She was too old to be young and other women her age had been crossed off the list of women suitable for appraisal