Quotes About Exclusion

Like a book, like a house, the quality of a salon, Mme de Guermantes quite rightly thought, depended essentially on what you excluded.

But political passions are like all the rest, they do not last. New generations arise which no longer understand them; even the generation that experienced them changes, experiences new political passions which, not being modelled exactly upon their predecessors, rehabilitate some of the excluded, the reason for exclusion having altered.

As part of this process, the location of areas of exclusion in theology is one of crucial importance; for instance, poverty and sensuality as a whole (and not as separate units) has been marginalised in theology. A theology from the poor needs also to be a sexual theology, a theology of economics and desires that have been excluded from our way of 'doing theology' as a second act. I

Around here, I'm pretty sure 'us' means Texans, and 'them' means the other seven billion on the planet.

Privacy is a privilege not granted to the aged or the young.

I hate when I'm supposed to be having fun and Race singles me out for special chores and duties.

The people in the popular group say there is no peer pressure because they are at the top of the food chain. Really what they are doing is just eating away at everybody else.

If one by one we counted people out

[Public] libraries should be open to all—except the c

You're not funny and nobody likes you!

The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.

Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

God created the church, we have said, so that it might increasingly reflect the character of God as it's been revealed in his Word. In keeping with the storyline of the entire Bible, then, church discipline is the act of excluding an individual who carelessly brings disrepute onto the gospel and shows no commitment to doing otherwise.

Except Rebecca.

According to Spitzer, social junk refers to those whom the state sees as beaten so far down, so nearly destroyed, that they just need to be moved aside. In the U.S., these include the mentally ill, drug addicts, lonely and frayed drifters, alcoholics, and cast-off impoverished elders.

To live protected within any version of a gated community diminishes me; it is an affront to my dignity as a person. It is to live as a parasite, and so clothes my everyday living in structural violence.

The intensive and concerted effort to exclude references to religion or God from public places is an attack on our founding principles. It's an attempt to bolster a growing reliance on the government--especially the judiciary--as the source of our rights. But if our rights are not unalienable, if they don't come from a source higher than ourselves, then they're malleable at the will of the state. This is a prescription for tyranny.

A man is accepted into church for what he believes--and turned out for what he knows.

Gentlemen, include me out.

I suddenly feel left out of a future that isn't even going to happen.

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

Everybody lives in their own Jamaica and damn if that was ever going to be mine.

the policeman move up the line saying, You can't fuck, go home. You can't fuck neither remove youself. You look like you can fuck, stay. You go, you go. Hold on, hold on now, you move like is you the one who getting the fucking. Batty boy, remove youself, and you, you better stay.

1949, Mexican American civil rights activists sought to challenge the exclusion of Mexican Americans from funeral homes reserved for white citizens. This time they met with mixed results. The governor's office refused to assist them, yet they obtained the political support of Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, and their struggle received national attention.