There was an idea of accepting everyone; there was no sense of exclusion.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.
One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
We had people of all backgrounds coming together - all races, all creeds, all colors, all status in life. And coming together there was a kind of quiet dignity and a kind of sense of caring and a feeling of joint responsibility.
We were not treated by our own government as proper human beings and consequently, some outsiders did not regard us as the same kind of humans as themselves.
I've never felt the constraints of social acceptability.
I have never felt the constraints of social acceptability.
Our family were outsiders, and I've always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded.
There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better.
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.
We know that social exclusion is closely tied to the new economic world order, globalized, with free and open markets, which isn't bringing prosperity or social justice to all.