#exclusion

I have a great interest in a number of things, perhaps too many. I admire people who seem to concentrate on only one fixed discipline to the exclusion of almost everything else. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#almost #concentrate #discipline #else #everything

All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in. [Conversation with Elizabeth Farnsworth, PBS NewsHour, March 9, 1998] ↗

— Toni Morrison

#exclusion #inspiration #paradises #utopias #wishes

[R]aging crime, class warfare, invasive immigrants, light morals, public misbehavior. Always we convince ourselves that the parade of unwelcome and despised is a new phenomenon, which is why the phrase "the good old days" has passed from cliché to self-parody. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#cliches #crime #exclusion #immigration #morals

In 2006, I entered the presidential palace in the main square of La Paz as the first indigenous president of Bolivia. Our government, under the slogan 'Bolivia Changes,' is committed to ending the colonialism, racism and exclusion that many of our people lived under for many centuries. ↗

— Evo Morales

#centuries #changes #colonialism #committed #ending

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#forward #freedom #justice #never #our

If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#becomes #dangerous #death #doing #dying

Doors open because you're beautiful, but I wouldn't cultivate beauty to the exclusion of brains. ↗

— Tia Carrere

#beauty #because #brains #cultivate #doors

If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#exclusion #had #i #over #photography

I don't think feminism is about the exclusion of men but their inclusion... we must face and address those issues, especially to include younger men and boys. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#address #especially #exclusion #face #feminism

There are stereotypes that have been out there for a long time that tell girls that their main asset, the main thing that they are valued for, is their appearance and also that it's to the exclusion of anything else. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#anything #appearance #asset #been #else