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Quotes About Exclusion

He left because the world is not made to accommodate people like him.
~ Michael Finkel
O mérito exerce, em simultâneo, a sua tirania em duas direções. Entre aqueles que acabam por chegar ao topo, induz um perfeccionismo debilitante e uma arrogância meritocrática que luta para ocultar uma auto-estima fragilidade. Entre aqueles que exclui, impõe um desmoralizaste, e mesmo humilhante, sentimento de fracasso.
~ Michael J. Sandel
So it was that, figuratively speaking, Jews helped build the house from the foundations up, and then they were told that as Jews they were not welcome.
~ Michael L. Brown
Trump's key supporters worked for him because nobody else would have them.
~ Michael Wolff
Then as now, the Christian Right turned anti-discrimination arguments on their heads: instead of African Americans being discriminated against by segregated Christian universities, the universities were being discriminated against by not being allowed to exclude them; instead of public prayers oppressing religious minorities, Christians are being oppressed by not being able to offer them.
~ Unknown
Her preaching theme, indeed, her modus operandi, might have been Include all!—she was always dragging some person she'd just met to our lunches and meetings and events—but how abruptly and thoroughly she'd excluded me.
~ Michelle Huneven
Respeto ... Respeto ... El respeto excluye el cariño. - Eso creerás tú ... ¡Hombre al fin!
~ Miguel de Unamuno
Det var en uppväxt av brist. Inte en materiell sådan, där hade vi så vi klarade oss, utan en identitetsmässig. Vi var inga. Våra föräldrar var inga. Våra förfäder hade betytt noll och intet för den svenska historien. [...] Vi bröt på finska utan att vara finnar, vi bröt på svenska utan att vara svenskar. Vi var ingenting.
~ Unknown
IMPAIRMENT: Lacking part or all of…or having a defective limb, organism or mechanism of the body DISABILITY: The disadvantage or restriction of activity caused by a contemporary social organization which takes no or little account of people who have physical [and/or cognitive/developmental/mental] impairments and thus excludes them from the mainstream of society. ~
~ Unknown
Japan will never change. It will never ever integrate gaijin...But it's not just you. Japan will never take people like my mother back into society again; it will never take back people like me. And we're Japanese
~ Min Jin Lee
Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners.
~ Miroslav Volf
In this group, everyone was foreign, and so, in a sense, no one was.
~ Mohsin Hamid
El poder de mercado, a la hora de la verdad, es excluyente y, por tanto, anticompetitivo; es decir, inhibe la competencia. Pero ni siquiera las empresas que ya ocupan un puesto dentro de la ciudadela, protegidas por barreras que limitan la entrada de nuevos rivales, tienen garantizada una vida fácil, ni siquiera la supervivencia.
~ Moisés Naím
Aroon is always on the outside looking in, always the unwanted hanger-on, the gooseberry.
~ Unknown
Language is a house with a host of doors, and I am too often uninvited and without the keys.
~ Monique Truong
Dans la mesure où la femme devient réalité pour un individu uniquement en relation avec un individu de la classe opposée - les hommes - et en particulier dans le mariage, les lesbiennes, parce qu'elles n'entrent pas dans cette catégorie, ne sont pas des "femmes".
~ Monique Wittig
Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.
~ Muhammad Yunus
But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.
~ Muhammad Yunus
Wherever he went, he was celebrating the arrival of God's kingdom, as often as not by partying with people who would normally be excluded because of their apparently shady moral background. Wherever
~ Unknown
Whenever you see, in an official lectionary, the command to omit two or three verses, you can normally be sure that they contain words of judgment. Unless, of course, they are about sex. But
~ Unknown
What is shameful cannot be shared. What is shameful, separates.
~ Nadine Gordimer
I don't want visitors." "We're not visitors. We're bears.
~ Nalini Singh
You're not a woman I'll ever want in my bed.
~ Nalini Singh
Every era in the continent's vaunted developmental story had its own taxonomy of waste people-unwanted and unsalvageable. Each era had its own means of distancing its version of white trash from the mainstream ideal.
~ Unknown