Quotes about Inclusion

We have to make ourselves available to one another, or we can't experience goodness. It's not so much us seeking God, tracking Her down with a butterfly net; it's agreeing to be found. The Old Girl reaches out to everyone and wants to include us in this beautiful, weird, sometimes anguished life. All people: go figure.

She quoted the Reverend James Forbes as saying, "Nobody gets into heaven without a letter of reference from the poor.

Being surrounded by educated people makes democracy stronger, and it benefits our entire economy.

This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life.

Unity among the different races and the different religions of India is indispensable to the birth of national life.

We are inclined that if we watch a football game or baseball game, we have taken part in it.

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued.

Here and there a cygnet is reared uneasily among the ducklings in the brown pond, and never finds the living stream in fellowship with its own oary-footed kind.

No child was afraid of approaching Silas when Eppie was near him: there was no repulsion around him now, either for young or old; for the little child had come to link him once more with the whole world. There was love between him and the child that blent them into one, and there was love between the child and the world

People from different backgrounds may not have natural affinity, but when the Word of God is treated right and the Holy Spirit is allowed to engage, it can bring together things, people, backgrounds, histories, races, colors, and cultures and hold them together in a way that natural affinity may not be able to do.

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.