Quotes about Inclusion

I had refused the body and blood of Christ because it was painful to the person beside me. I had chosen to abstain with him rather than to participate without him. Though I knew full well that he did not expect that of me - that it was possible for a full-fledged Christian and a full-fledged Jew to stand together in their difference - at that moment I did not want to celebrate any Communion that did not include him.

I had lived so long in the mainstream that I never even though about how I sounded from the margins

However you define the problematic present-day stranger—the religious stranger, the cultural stranger, the transgendered stranger, the homeless stranger—scripture's wildly impractical solution is to love the stranger as the self.

Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.

I feel like it's harder to get women to show up for movies.

Coming to Harvard was an eye-opening experience because there's so much diversity on campus.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

I support same-sex civil unions and I believe no should be denied their rights

Our country must abandon all the habits of racism because we cannot carry the message of freedom and the baggage of bigotry at the same time.

America works best when we work together to expand the circle of inclusion.

Striving for equality and working together with people different from us is what America is all about, because beneath our differences we are bound by a common humanity we all share.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn't a matter of political correctness. It's a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.