Quotes about Exclusion
It hardly ever attaches to any other sin except one, and is never heard from any organized group of people except one.
- Peter Kreeft
To summarize, there are three words that characterize this brand of fundamentalism: pride, domination, and exclusion. In sharp contrast, Jesus espoused humility, servanthood of leaders, and breaking down walls between people.
- Jimmy Carter
Today's socialist Left, however, wants an America that integrates the groups seen as previously excluded while excluding the group that was previously included. "If you are white, male, heterosexual, and religiously or socially conservative," writes author and editor Rod Dreher, "there's no place for you" on the progressive left.
- Dinesh D'Souza
Soon Jews were also removed and excluded from journalism, farming, teaching, and the theater. By 1938, Jews could not practice investment banking or the professions of law and medicine. This combination of segregation and state-sponsored discrimination against Jews mirrors what the Democrats did to African Americans.
- Dinesh D'Souza
To be set aside is to be rejected.To be set apart is to be given an assignment that requires preparation.
- Lysa TerKeurst
It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.
- Thomas Paine
There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.
- George Eliot
I remind you that no man who makes disparaging remarks concerning those of another race can consider himself a true disciple of Christ," said President Hinckley. "How can any man holding the Melchizedek Priesthood arrogantly assume that he is eligible for the priesthood whereas another who lives a righteous life but whose skin is of a different color, is ineligible?
- Gordon Hinckley
Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact.
- Roland Allen
What meals I had in silence and embarrassment, always feeling that there were a knife and fork too many, and that mine; an appetite too many, and that mine; a plate and chair too many, and those mine; a somebody too many, and that I!
- Charles Dickens
At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyone else. I never felt like I fit in, and I wasn't allowed to participate in after-school activities, go to sports events or parties or date boys. Many times I had to make up stories about why I couldn't do anything with my classmates.
- Joyce Meyer
Because of their enmity you will be left alone. They will cast you out and forsake you.
- Thomas Merton