Quotes About Acceptance

My mum would say sometimes, 'Do you think you might be gay?' But it wasn't that. When I imagined myself in a romantic setting, it was heterosexual, but I was just always a girl.

Most of us, when imagining an All-American, wouldn't picture a man who looked like me. Not even I would.

When I found I had given birth to a human wreckage, to a child that was an imbecile, my heart was broken.

I'm straight, but it's immaterial what your sexuality is. Isn't it really just about being a fulfilled human being?

I believe that the essence of marriage is choosing someone who loves you for who you are, embraces everything about you, and building a life with that person. Whether that life is with children or without children - it's honestly immaterial to building a life with someone that you love fully.

I truly believe that love is love and gender is immaterial.

Bigotry and demonisation of difference are usually the hallmark of immature and childish minds.

We think we can control life by controlling our immediate circumstances. But we can't!

I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.

Once I accepted Christ I immediately had peace. I still didn't have a place to live, I still didn't have a car, but I had peace.

Don't expect yourself to immediately love your stepchildren. In fact, you may hate them for a bit.

There's still an immense amount of discrimination that happens against trans people.

I have immense respect for anyone with a physical deformity and the courage and confidence it takes just to go out in the world.

Firstly, I will never leave comedy because I love doing it. Secondly, it's the genre that has given me acceptance and immense love from the audience.

Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant.

Immigrant communities have been genuinely accepted in London.

America has long been the land of immigrants.

Successful immigrants assimilate or become bi-cultural.

Our nation relies on immigrants.

Throughout history, groups of Americans have attacked immigrants who fled danger and destruction at home and arrived in America hoping for the opportunities those of us born here are lucky enough to enjoy.

My parents were first-generation immigrants. My mum wore a sari but at school and as a teenager and in my 20s I wanted to fit in.

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.

We never have been closed to immigration.

If someone thinks homosexuality is immoral, they have a right to believe that.