61 Quotes About Exclusion

All division is created in and by the mind.

Historical exclusivity often has a way of turning into present and institutionalized tragedy. Whose story gets told matters.

When men learnt to talk in the beginning of the civilised word they used language not as a means of communication alone but as a means of excluding others--using it as a way of setting themselves apart and shutting out strangers.

Coming from a portion of society that likes to exclude others from it, and separate itself from others, the myth of 'the Rapture' is naturally the ultimate exclusion.

Exclusion lights up the same regions of the brain as physical pain.

Because if you don't have someone to run out of town once in a while, how are you going to know you yourself belong there?

The weaponization of belonging is one of the most "anti-christ" dynamics I have ever encountered.

Over four decades of pastoral ministry—I got started early—you make mistakes. But the mistakes you most regret are the ones that obscure the gospel and hurt the people you love, by saying in effect, "You do not belong," to those for whom Christ died to provide a place of belonging.

The sequestering of the family in the big house feels to those within the walls like a strange curtailment of their liberty. To those in the village it is no great novelty. For them, even before the wall’s building was complete, to stray about the park, without express permission, was to risk having a leg bitten off by a mantrap. Prisoners lament their confinement. Sometimes to be at large is an equal deprivation