Quotes About Acceptance

Luckily for the people she helped, my mother was gloriously inconsistent. She lived according to the more enlightened parts of the Bible and ignored the rest. For instance, no matter what she claimed the Bible taught about homosexuality, Mom acted as if being born gay was just another way to be human. She provided refuge, love and compassion to many gay

of other women. Oppression is most powerful when internalized and self-imposed. Self-oppression (knowing your "place") becomes a passport to acceptance by the dominant group. Sometime fundamentalist women perpetrate crimes against their daughters by training them to act subservient to

I don't view you as a market segment. I view you as my partner, an individual reader, a friend as complex and maybe even as conflicted, as I am. Why should either of us "fit" anywhere?

As an ultimate fuck you to rule-keeping scripture zealots everywhere, Jesus hung out with whores.

I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.

Don't hide your scars. They make you who you are

That's life,and I can't deny it/Many times I thought of cuttin' out but my heart won't buy it.

The author says those who often claim to be tolerant are tolerant of those who agree with them – which is no one's definition of tolerance.

In 1988, a group of prominent homosexuals got together in Warrentown, Virginia, to map out their plan to get homosexuality accepted by the general public. In the book that resulted from their meeting, they revealed a strategy that achieves its effect "without reference to facts, logic or proof . . . the person's beliefs can be altered whether he is conscious of the attack or not."1

The church of Jesus Christ was a classless society. Its members didn't regard social status, color, or position. For them, there was no Jew or Greek in the body of Christ. There was no slave or free. There was no rich or poor. Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; but Christ is all, and in all. (Colossians 3:11 ESV)

Christians get very angry at those who sin differently than they do.

Every single person has at least one secret that would break your heart. If we could just remember this, I think there would be a lot more compassion and tolerance in the world.

How I wish I could hug everyone and tell them that it's okay. It's okay to be scared and angry and hurt and selfish. It's part of being human

Sometimes... I feel as if I'm not supposed to get better.

If ever I was in a plane that was going down, rather than screaming, crying and railing against the inevitable, I would look out the window, watch my death speeding toward me, and fully appreciate the final experience of my life.

I don't feel like I have to conform when I'm with you.

Ni siquiera podré dejarla—pensó amargamente—: no, no puedo. Excepto por la puerta de la muerte, soy incapaz de separarme de ella. Pero lo que exista entre nosotros de ahora en adelante será como un valioso jarrón roto al caer al suelo y que ha sido hábilmente reparado, rehecho. Pero, ¡Dios santo, qué aspecto tan lamentable tienen las grietas a la luz del día!

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it isn't open.

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there.