Quotes about Inclusion

When women participate in peace-making and peace-keeping, we are all safer and more secure.

Scripture Reading: Mark 3:31—35 Then Jesus' mother and brothers arrived. Standing outside, they sent someone in to call him. A crowd was sitting around him, and they told him, "Your mother and brothers are outside looking for you." "Who are my mother and my brothers?" he asked. Then he looked at those seated in a circle around him and said, "Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does God's will is my brother and sister and mother.

I'm not out to save the world, just to be part of it.

I think many of the ideas that opened up in the '60s got implemented in the '70s and that certain minority voices that were not being heard in the '60s, like women and gay people, were being heard in the '70s. Black Civil Rights had also found its foothold, and those ideas were also very pertinent.

You have to have more people who don't look like you in the writers room. I try to have some people who don't look like me in my writers room. I think it's important to have a group of voices, of people who can dissent.

People are embracing the thing that made them different growing up instead of letting that thing elicit shame.

When I call myself an affirmative action baby, I'm talking about the essence of what affirmative action was when it started.

It's important to be seen in different films and banners.

There is no scriptural basis for segregation.

I want to show who I am, show my best tennis, show why I'm there, why I belong.

I remember when I was young, there was an older boy who was physically and mentally disabled. He had a speech impediment and walked with difficulty. The boys used to make fun of him. They teased and taunted him until sometimes he would cry.

Now, Martin Luther King Jr. was a bridge builder, not a wall builder.