Quotes about Inclusion

The blind can see love, the deaf can hear love, the mute can express love, and the disabled can carry love.

By embracing the "outcast," Jesus underscored the "sinfulness" of the persons and systems that cast them out.

Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans even as I exclude myself from the community of sinners

The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.

Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument.

Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.

We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.

We are all Federalists, and we are all Republicans.

The measure of society is how it treats the weakest members.

Shall we refuse to the unhappy fugitives from distress that hospitality which the savages of the wilderness extended to our fathers arriving in this land? Shall oppressed humanity find no asylum on this globe?

It is a wise man who said there is no inequality than the equal treatment of unequals. Fillossofee: Messages From a Grandfather, an ebook

It seems clear, from reading the daily news if nothing else, that there will always be some in this world who want their holy wars, who will discriminate, vilify, and even kill in the name of God. They have narrowed down the concept of neighbor to include only those like themselves, in terms of creed, caste, race, sex, or sexual orientation. But there is also much evidence that there are many who know that a neighbor might be anyone at all, and are willing to act on that assumption.