Janet Echelman Quotes

I am dedicated to ensuring that the prosperity our city is experiencing extends to everyone who lives, works and visits Portland.

I'm just trying to stretch the public space wider and make it more open so that a wider variety of people and faces and stories and perspectives and also expertise can come through. So everything that I do rests on that, trying to support on other voices.

I think people want to live in a city that is welcoming and inclusive. I don't think people want to feel that they can only go into a place with a rainbow flag in front.

We have to create a world where people can show up as whole people every single time.

All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.

We can be more inclusive.

Sports are a microcosm of society.

If you think about making a city that is much more porous, many accessible spaces, that is a political position, because you don't fortify, you open it up so that many people can use it.

I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.

I'm not looking to exclude people, I'm looking to include them.

I don't want to detach. I don't want to go live in a gated community.

We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society.

There was an idea of accepting everyone; there was no sense of exclusion.

The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.

People like space. But they sometimes have been left out. People are much more open to that if you invite them in.

I want to give people who might not feel included a place to go.

There's a burden of responsibility for me to show up correct - in my head, if I don't do it right, then I'll get shut out, and then other trans women of color will be shut out.

In just my own neighborhood, you can't go one block without seeing a sign that says, you know, 'Everyone's welcome here,' 'Refugees are welcome here.' I love my Muslim neighbors, and so there is truly this spirit of generosity and compassion and openness that still exists.

Let me say, I fully embrace equality, and I believe in the innate value of every single human being and that all students, no matter their age, should be able to attend a school and feel safe and be free of discrimination.

In San Francisco, our businesses, healthcare services, workforce, and housing will always be Open to All.

We can make this industry and this environment and comic book shops and comic book conventions and comic books themselves, we can make them a thing that is accessible to everybody so that nobody feels unwelcome, and nobody feels like this isn't their place.

My personal failures aside, 500 has long supported a diverse community of entrepreneurs including women, minorities, LGTBQ, international, and other overlooked founders.

Helping to open up the conversation about inclusion and diversity in casting has been a dream come true.

Diversity and inclusion are always something industries should strive for.

Our public spaces should be places that are inclusive, that bring people together.