Quotes about Inclusion
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.
— George W. Bush
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.
— Kevin Faulconer
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.
— Barack Obama
America is composed of all kinds of people - part of the difficulty in our nation today is due to the fact that we are not utilising the abilities and the talents of other brown and black peoples and females that have something to bring to the creativity and the rejuvenation and the revitalisation of this country.
— Shirley Chisholm
What about the poor? How many poor people, unemployed people, financially struggling people are in your church? Are they even willing to let those facts be known? If not, why not?
— Scot McKnight
Not only that, Jesus finds all the "wrong" people on God's side and all the "right" people against God.
— Scot McKnight
The church God wants is one brimming with difference,
— Scot McKnight
There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people in that society who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that that have nothing to lose. People who have stake in their society, protect that society, but when they don't have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have a dream. I have a dream that one day, people will be judged by the content of their character, not by the color of their skin.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Don't allow anybody to make you feel that you're nobody.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
God is not interested merely in the freedom of black men, and brown men, and yellow men; God is interested in the freedom of the whole human race.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.