Non Exclusionary Quotes

#1. The religion itself may have some great ideas, but I can't take it seriously if it's blatantly exclusionary.

David O. Russell

#2. Trans activism in the US has most frequently been grassroots, centered on poverty and criminalization, and often oppositional to the exclusionary "mainstreaming" threads in gay and lesbian politics and feminist politics.

Dean Spade

#3. Spirituality is a harmonious blend of outer silence and inner celebration; and also inner silence and outer celebration!

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#4. But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.

Arthur Phillips

#5. Dance has become an exclusionary enterprise. To participate, one must be thinner than thin, of pleasing form, flexible, athletic and young. If you are not all these things, you will be allowed to dance in the privacy of your own living room. You just wouldn't dare to put yourself onstage.

Clive Barnes

#6. I am attempting to move away from the exclusionary practices of feminist theory, particularly anti-pornography rhetoric, in order to amplify the discussion about the complexity of pleasure for women.

Barbara Degenevieve

#7. I lived near Santa Cruz for ten years, and the whole time, it bothered me what an exclusionary definition of 'inclusion' was in force. Social censure was applied to those who expressed unpopular or uncomfortable ideas.

Kent Beck

#8. The ordained minister, the one set aside and consecrated, is to illuminate the vocation of
the Church and the vocations of the many people who are the Church. That means that ordination is not exclusionary but exemplary."28

L. Gregory Jones

#9. Yet the very phrase "pro-life" has too often meant "harsh and exclusionary," and associating myself with such a movement made me judgmental and giving a witness that was contrary to the Gospel call.

Simone Campbell

#10. Beyond the Catholic exclusionary paradigm is a larger one which is the Christian one. Christians claim that if you don't believe in Christ, you can't get to heaven. Well that eliminates two thirds of the world's population!

Neale Donald Walsch

#11. Because of our interconnectedness we all know that extreme poverty and exclusionary practices are violations against the basic dignity of people.

Bryant McGill

#12. right" way to be Chicana/o also could be a hegemonic discourse and exclusionary of those who do not fit. They recognized the possibility of multiple hegemonic structures and the danger of policing claims to identity.

Dolores Delgado Bernal

#13. Vast sections of the world's population are inspired by the same desires and live for common interests that bind them together far more than they separate them.

Mikhail Sholokhov

#14. A lot of people don't belong in our clothes, and they can't belong. Are we exclusionary? Absolutely. Those companies that are in trouble are trying to target everybody: young, old, fat, skinny. But then you become totally vanilla. You don't alienate anybody, but you don't excite anybody, either.

Mike Jeffries

#15. The offspring of nationalist thinking too often expresses itself in exclusionary and passively-violent legal policies, and then sadly, through militarism, which becomes manifest on the endless blood-soaked borders and battlefields of humanity's great failure as a humane species.

Bryant McGill

#16. To become a singer requires work, work, and again, work! It need not be in any special corner of the earth; there is no one spot that will do more for you than other places. It doesn't matter so much where you are if you have intelligence and a good ear.

Enrico Caruso

#17. One either has to believe in a God who's terribly prejudiced, or disbelieve the teachings of such exclusionary theologies. Religions have taught us that 'we are better than they.'

Neale Donald Walsch

#18. I think the first thing we need to talk about is you not running around in tight T-shirts and yoga pants." "Fine. I'll stop doing that as soon as you shave." Jack ran his hand along his jaw and grinned. "You like the scruff, huh?" Did she ever.

Julie James

#19. Worship is exclusionary. You cannot compromise on worship. Worship

Ravi Zacharias

#20. Democracy's a farce, Ronan said, and Adam smirked, a private, small thing that was inherently exclusionary. An expression, in fact, that he could've very well learned from Ronan.

Maggie Stiefvater

#21. You make music to move people and you don't get to pick who you move. You just don't. It's exclusionary and elitist and I just never felt that way about music, of all things. The great unifier.

Mark Lanegan

#22. So tell me, Tamara darlin', what other needs can I help you take care of?

Avery Flynn

#23. While art should never become exclusionary and elitist, any culture which fails to support its artists is only contributing to its own impoverishment. (Beyond Religion, p. 122)

David N. Elkins

#24. I don't believe in nationalism. I think it's a bunch of slogans. It's a bunch of poor attempts at creating pride. My problem with nationalism is that it becomes exclusionary. We start to exclude people.

Miguel Syjuco

#25. The longer I lived in the east, the more completely I realized that, for better or worse, I was going to be, to everybody's mind, wherever I lived, a Texan.

Donald E. Graham

#26. My Vocabularies vary, its so exclusionary You'll find my baby pictures in modern dictionaries Next to mighty mercenaries, and visual visionaries

Andre Nickatina

#27. I don't believe in creating exclusionary art.

Joss Whedon