Quotes about Inclusion
The problem with the world is that we draw the circle of our family too small.
- Mother Teresa
We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.
- Mark Twain
I feel a part of the congregation. I've never had to do special music. The kids sing in the choir. It's just normal. We're treated like everybody else.
- Amy Grant
Americans should tremble before suggesting that any fellow citizen lacks patriotism.
- Barack Obama
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
- St. Francis Of Assisi
Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our premise is that inclusion leads to growth. So for those who are locked out, they lose development, and those who are in power lose market and growth.
- Jesse Jackson
Sometimes we make the mistake of thinking God uses only 'special' people the strong, the intelligent, the beautiful. We don't think He has a place for the rest of us. We are so wrong!
- Chuck Smith
Our flag is read, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbown-red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.
- Jesse Jackson
In the stories of extravagant grace given to us by Jesus, there are no loopholes disqualifying us from God's love.
- Philip Yancey
We are in God and God whom we do not see is in us.
- Julian of Norwich
To be Christian is to be one of those whom God has chosen. God has chosen black people!
- James H. Cone