Quotes about Inclusion

We live in a world where we have friends, neighbors, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, people we journey with for years who are gay. And we need to love, affirm and all of us together work on the real problems that we have in the world.

Comments that suggest that Muslims should be banned from the United States are offensive and unconstitutional.

Until we reach equality in education, we can't reach equality in the larger society.

There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives.

Some of my best men are women!

A city is composed of different kinds of men; similar people cannot bring a city into existence.

They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans.

Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact.

We live in the world with you. We do not forsake forum or bath or workshop, or inn, or market, or any other place of commerce. We sail with you, fight with you, farm with you.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism…. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.