Quotes About Acceptance

Coming into Alabama from Florida, they all accepted me, they all loved me and all supported me.

That's how diversity becomes a gimmick or device, when it is introduced but not supported.

I'm blessed to have a family that always supported me being me.

Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.

Gay marriage has jumped out of the closet on to the front page. Everyone from the president of the U.S. to retired four-star general Colin Powell is embracing the issue, now supported by most Americans. Still, a few people, like former First Lady Laura Bush appear to be conflicted.

I represent a body image that wasn't accepted in high fashion before, and I'm very lucky to be supported by the designers, stylists, and editors that I am: ones that know this is fashion; this is art. It can never stay the same. It's 2015.

I am grateful that the people of Telangana supported me when I spoke in the Andhra accent, just as much as the people of Andhra embraced my Telangana dialect.

I was very lucky that my family really supported me in exploring my femininity when I was young, and so it was a joyous thing.

It's one thing to be supported in your career and another thing for your peers to embrace you and say, 'We believe in you.'

The thing about gay male pop stars is: they aren't supported by gay men. Gay men don't really support them until they've gone beyond the gay community and had success in the mainstream, so it's really challenging.

I understood the whole purpose of Truth and Reconciliation, and I supported it 100 per cent, but I couldn't deal with it myself.

I have always supported the rights of those who want to be in a same-sex relationship. It is an individual person's choice.

My family has always appreciated and supported me for my choices.

I'm mindful I won't be supported by everyone but I hope that people can keep an open mind and perhaps look at my performance in a broader context.

I was born into such a loving, caring family who were super liberal and supported me no matter what.

I'm a big supporter of the LGBT community and stopping bullying.

I have always felt good with the players at United, but with the supporters, it was difficult a little bit when I arrived.

I've met some very difficult people and I've had some very difficult conversations and had lots of criticism, especially from away supporters who sing songs that aren't very pleasant. So I think part and parcel of life is accepting that not everyone likes you.

I was a supporting character in other people's lives, which seemed right and familiar to me. I was also an outsider: English in the U.S., American in England, dogged yet comforted by that familiar feeling of alien-ness, which occupied that space where my sense of self should have been.

I probably wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for the gay community supporting me. I wouldn't be the artist I was today if it wasn't for that because that was the only community that let me try, let me perform without knowing who I was.

I unknowingly accepted impermissible benefits from my summer landlord. I look forward to moving on from this incident and to supporting my alma mater for many years to come.

It's great, and it's nice to have that feeling when you go home, all the people are supporting you. Of course, there are some people that are talking bad things, but it's normal, and I take them like positives, because not all the people can like me, so it's OK.

I think my mother has always understood what a romantic idealist I am, so she's never had trouble supporting what might be aberrant behavior to others.

Challenges are what inspire me. I therefore accept whatever comes my way, be it supporting roles or character roles.