Exclusion Quotes

It was a time of great loneliness. He had a group of friends, and suddenly I had no one and did not understand why. I felt excluded. Some days, the majority was in high school and did not know who to talk to. And that is something really terrible when you're twelve years old.

I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball.

Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they contemplate pursuits beyond the limits of these principles and involving dangers which the society chooses to avoid, they must go somewhere else for their exercise; that we want no citizens, and still less ephemeral and pseudo-citizens, on such terms. We may exclude them from our territory, as we do persons infected with disease.

It wasn't that no one asked me to the prom, it was that no one would tell me where it was.

Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?

Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.

I was the girl who didn’t get invited to parties.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train, and seldom wastes her attentions. Society is very swift in its instincts, and if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you.

If one by one we counted people out