Quotes About Acceptance

I chose to treat the homosexuality like I would treat any other form of sexuality.

Treat the other man's faith gently: it is all he has to believe with.

When I first came to New York everybody on the scene would treat me like I could play, but I couldn't.

I believe the best influence you can have is not by being preachy, but by trying to live. For example, knowing you're not perfect, but trying to treat everyone kind and accepting everyone for who they are.

You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don't want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don't want them to judge other people or to be judged. I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.

Listen to people and treat people as you find them. There's an inherent goodness in most people. Don't pre-judge people - that was me Mam's advice anyway.

I'm open to play for anybody that would give me respect, treat me the right way, and actually going to make me feel comfortable.

I think it's so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.

What is important is to treat everyone like an individual and learning not to generalize autism. With autism, people make assumptions, but it's very broad, and everyone's so different. You have to treat each person as an individual.

People in Andhra Pradesh treat me like a girl next door after 'Ala Modalaindi.' I feel at home here.

We need to treat people with mental illness like people.

People tend to treat people with disabilities sort of like they're aliens from another planet. It doesn't come from a bad place; it comes from a place of, 'I have no idea what this disability entails, and I don't want to offend anyone or make them feel awful.'

I live my life by these little church signs you see as you drive around, and there's one near me that says, 'If we really knew each other, we would neither idolise nor condemn.' And that's it: if we all knew each other, then we wouldn't treat anybody any different. And there wouldn't be any big stars, I guess.

Actually, the kids at school don't treat me any differently at all just because I'm on television.

I learned so much from other actors and they definitely didn't treat me like some sex bomb or bimbo. I felt fully accepted in the regular movie world. I didn't feel categorised.

I want people to treat me as normally as they can. Anybody who doesn't, I feel awkward with.

If you act weird, people are going to treat you weird, but if you're just yourself, people respond to that.

My family and friends treat me as they always have.

I think everybody can be beautiful. Anybody can have beauty. It's about how you look at the world, in a way, and how you treat yourself.

I love the French very much, and I think they know that. I've been adopted here. They treat me as one of their own.

I'd just like to be treated like a regular customer.

Life has always treated me well. I therefore won't mind leaving it behind.

You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.

I don't think well of people who are prejudiced against people because of race. The only way for prejudiced people to change is for them to decide for themselves that all human beings should be treated fairly. We can't force them to think that way.