Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference - those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are black, who are older - know that survival is not an academic skill...For the master's tools will not dismantle the master's house. They will never allow us to bring about genuine change.
Audre LordeTags: women society different survival race racism differences poor rejection exclusion impoverished lesbians outcasts povetry social-acceptance survival-skills
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]
Tags: inspiration wishes desires utopias exclusion paradises
The continuum in which we live is not the kind of place in which middles can be unambiguously excluded.
Reuben AbelTags: life exclusion continuum inclusion middles
We of alien looks or words must stick together.
C.J. SansomTags: society community immigrants xenophobia outsiders exclusion foreigners
There is a circle of humanity, he told me, and I can feel its warmth. But I am forever outside.
Susan GriffinCollective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Bertrand RussellTags: fear violence discrimination xenophobia herd-mentality exclusion herd-behavior
The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality, an exclusion. Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.
Umberto EcoTags: poverty heresy exclusion leprosy
Tags: poverty discrimination exclusion leprosy
Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who did not belong. She knew from experience that she would quickly have to ingratiate herself with her new masters to avoid being rejected or, in more dire cases, punished. Then there would be the phase where she would have to sharpen her senses in order to see and hear as acutely as possible so that she could assimilate quickly all the new customs and the words most frequently used by the group she was to become a part of--so that finally, she would be judged on her own merits.
Laura EsquivelTags: judgement punishment immigration slavery assimilation exclusion
What the fissure through which one sees disaster? The circle is unbroken; the harmony complete. Here is the central rhythm; here the common mainspring. I watch it expand, contract; and then expand again. Yet I am not included.
Virginia WoolfTags: harmony disaster exclusion expansion fissure
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