Inclusive Thinking Quotes

For us, every day is Earth Day. It's like with Women's Day recently, I said, "Every day is women's day - we're women!" It's something that we sort of take for granted.

I don't agree with those in our community who think that, as gay people, we are special and should therefore keep ourselves isolated from certain straight-associated thinking or conventions.

I would never imagine a mate based on a certain sex or race.

I consider everybody I know to be my family.

I've gained first hand knowledge of the challenges faced by people with disabilities. It's made me understand that those of us who have full use of our physical faculties owe an enormous amount of respect and sensitivity to people who don't.

Diversity is not a skin thing, necessarily. Diversity is you have people around the table who have different backgrounds and different experiences and think differently.

Whatever is true transcends culture and religion. We do not talk of Christian physics or Moslem Algebra.

Children are not ‘those children’; they are our children.

The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside.

We have torn down the barriers in our laws. Now we must break down the barriers in our lives, our minds and our hearts …

We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas.

Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does.

So many people, including stark conservatives, have family members and close friends who are gay.

There's two kinds of thinking. There is conjunctive thinking and there's disjunctive thinking. Disjunctive thinking says it has to be either/or. Now clearly, there are some either/or's - I either trust Christ or I don't. I'm either pregnant or I'm not. But a lot of thinking in Scripture, when it comes to theology is, in my opinion, conjunctive thinking. It's both/and. I believe that and I believe that.

Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.

The supreme religious challenge is to see God’s image in one who is not in our image.

This is my country, that is your country; these are the conceptions of narrow souls - to the liberal minded the whole world is a family.

I get my inspiration from everyone when I need it and how I need it.

I consider myself to be a citizen of the world.

What I would like to build is a new centre, a wider, broader centre, which would encompass a lot of different philosophies - you know, the philosophy that I'm putting forward that is a market liberal philosophy and a socially liberal philosophy but would have room in it for a broader church than that.

I've always paid attention to religion because I grew up in a religious background, but I've never felt a part of any of them. I think there's something to be drawn from most of them - other than goat sacrificing.

Don't say I hate institutionalised religion - rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I'm saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.

Call it holistic or holographic thinking, it's been quite effective imagining the world's problems are all right in front of you on a smaller scale with your band. You deal with those relationships, and that's where real major change begins.

Intelligence is not a competition," she said. "There is plenty to go around, and there are many ways it can be demonstrated.

I'm hoping that what I am or what I'm not ethnically doesn't limit me in anyone else's eyes. I guarantee you it doesn't in mine.