Quotes about Inclusion

The name's Obama. Where do I belong?

I resolved the lingering questions of my racial identity. For it turned out there was no single way to be Black; just trying to be a good man was enough.

I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother — a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.

To be here was to be known. If Lee County isn't that, it's nothing.

Without involvement, there is no commitment.

How does light enter a house? If the windows are open. How does light enter a human? If the door of love is open.

If we are truly created equal then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.

You don't have to choose between your faith and your sexuality. You're not alone, things will get better, and God loves you exactly the way you are.

Not everyone is your brother or sister in the faith, but everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your neighbor.

Everybody needs love. Everybody. Those who don't believe that frighten me a little.

God at his best (and he always is) does not have favorite children.

When a foreigner lives with you in your land, don't take advantage of him. Treat the foreigner the same as a native. Love him like one of your own. Remember that you were once foreigners