Quotes about Inclusion

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

There is no scriptural basis for segregation.

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.

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engrafted with a foreign stock.

A Christ-centered church is not a showcase for saints but a hospital for sinners.

Every religion at its core is exclusive.

But the pull of God's largeness summons all of us, often through the words and presence of "the other." The old teaching of exclusion cannot fully protect us from God's pull to be a neighbor.

It seems that I always am and always have been an outsider. I've never really fit in. I was always too religious for my rowdy friends—they thought I was unbelievably hung up—and too rowdy for my religious friends—they were always praying for me.

The Beatitudes, far from being a new set of virtues that further divide the religious haves and have nots, are words of hope and healing to those who have been marginalized.