"You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right." 

— Rosa Parks

"The American dream belongs to all of us."

— Kamala Harris

"Inclusion is not a strategy to help people fit into the systems and structures which exist in our societies. It is about transforming those systems and structures to make it better for everyone. Inclusion is about creating a better world for everyone."

– Diane Richler

"One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it can change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world."

― Barack Obama

"I am different, but not less."

― Dr. Temple Grandin

"We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own."

— Cesar Chavez

“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." 

— Booker T. Washington

"I’ve never scored a goal in my life without getting a pass from someone else."

– Abby Wambach

"Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within." 

– James Baldwin

"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes ... Including you."

― Anne Lamott

"If you don't think representation matters, you're probably well represented."

– Bernice King

"I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself."

– Maya Angelou

"You have been assigned this mountain so that you can show others it can be moved."

– Mel Robbins

"Don't make the world let you feel that you have to look a certain way to be brilliant. And no, you don't have to speak a certain way to be brilliant. But you do have to spread your gift around the planet in a way that is authentically you." 

– Beyoncé

"It’s a tremendous honor to be one of Inc.’s 2024 Female Founders honorees. Everyone deserves the chance to thrive and belong and this recognition is validation that the work of inclusion matters."

— Michelle Silverthorn

“Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it's having the courage to show up and be seen.”

– Brené Brown

“Let's practice motivation and love, not discrimination and hate.”

– Zendaya

“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”

– Audre Lorde

"As women achieve power, the barriers will fall. As society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we'll all be better off for it."

– Sandra Day O'Connor

"When I was the only Black girl in that class, when you saw me and told me I was enough. When I told you, 'I don't see myself,' and you said, 'That's fine, we're going to forge our own path. You're going to lay a trail for yourself."

- Da'Vine Joy Randolph thanking her acting professor in her Oscars acceptance speech