Inclusion Quotes

• When everyone is included, everyone wins.

  Jesse Jackson

  Winning

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• No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leadership, Teacher, Art And Culture

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.173, Rajpal & Sons

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• We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.

  Maya Angelou

  Color, Kwanzaa, Common Threads

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• Each human being, however small or weak, has something to bring to humanity. As we start to really get to know others, as we begin to listen to each other's stories, things begin to change. We begin the movement from exclusion to inclusion, from fear to trust, from closedness to openness, from judgment and prejudice to forgiveness and understanding. It is a movement of the heart.

  Jean Vanier

  Heart, Understanding, Humanity

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• Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.

  Jesse Jackson

  Keys, Political, Growth

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• Difference between diversity and inclusion is being invited to a house and being able to rearrange the furniture.

  Jane Silber

  Differences, Diversity, House

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• We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.

  Max De Pree

  Life, Beautiful, Healing

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

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• In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Strength, Beauty

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wit and Wisdom of Maya Angelou”, p.9, Hachette UK

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• We are less when we don't include everyone.

  Stuart Milk

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• Inclusion and fairness in the workplace . . . is not simply the right thing to do; it's the smart thing to do.

  Alexis Herman

  Smart, Fairness, Workplace

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• Diversity, or the state of being different, isn't the same as inclusion. One is a description of what is, while the other describes a style of interaction essential to effective teams and organizations.

  Bill Crawford

  Team, Organization, Diversity

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• We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.

  George Takei

  Differences, Diversity, Humanity

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  Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Art, Thinking, Individual Differences

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• Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Safety, Peaceful, Unity

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “A Bridge for Passing”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• Peace requires everyone to be in the circle - wholeness, inclusion.

  Isabel Allende

  Circles, Diversity, Brotherhood

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• If you want a strong society, it has to be inclusive.
  If you have to push a boulder up a hill, do you want 10 people or 100?
  If you weed out colour or gender, you get 10.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Weed, Strong, People

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• We have the Internet of Everything but not the inclusion of everyone.

  Ajaypal Singh Banga

  Internet

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• As a society, we've learned that we're all better off
  when everyone is included in the opportunities of this great nation.

  Edward Kennedy

  Opportunity, Society, Better Off

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• 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

  Growth, Development, Locked

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• We cannot eradicate violence if we do not build strong, inclusive communities.

  Hillary Clinton

  Strong, Community, Violence

  Hillary Clinton's speech on Opportunity in the Americas in Quito, Ecuador, library.brown.edu. June 8, 2010.

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• The philosophy of jazz represents tolerance, teamwork and inclusion. That's what America is about. The music reflects that.

  T. S. Monk

  Teamwork, Philosophy, America

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• It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

  Maya Angelou

  Strength, Educational, Teaching

  Twitter post from Jul 13, 2016

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• I think that is something that I always like in my work - the sense of inclusion rather than the sense of otherness.

  Neil Gaiman

  Thinking, Otherness

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• You have to stick up for what you believe in. And that, to me, is the biggest thing you can do about driving inclusion.

  Ginni Rometty

  Believe, Sticks, Driving

  "IBM's Ginni Rometty: Growth and comfort do not coexist". Interview with Jessi Hempel, fortune.com. October 5, 2011.

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• Today when I think about diversity, I actually think about the word “inclusion.” And I think this is a time of great inclusion. It’s not men, it’s not women alone. Whether it’s geographic, it’s approach, it’s your style, it’s your way of learning, the way you want to contribute, it’s your age - it is really broad.

  Ginni Rometty

  Men, Thinking, Diversity

  "IBM's Ginni Rometty on leadership". Interview with John Huey, fortune.com. October 2, 2012.

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