Quotes About Acceptance

I believe whatever has to happen will happen - you just need to stand up for yourself.

I tried to be really tough when I was younger. I felt I had to stand up for myself. I never felt like I fit in.

You see, the thing is, if you don't do anything to your face, and you get old, and you can stand up, and you can remember your lines, the work is there.

I'm so glad that we have had so many consequential rallies and parades which have now educated people and made them stand up for the third gender and give them the absolute place in our society that they deserve. There should have never been a division in the first place, though.

We would never ask any other faith community to stand up and condemn acts of violence committed by people within their groups. The fact that this is only directed at the Muslim community is something that I personally can't accept.

I think if transvestites don't stand up for themselves, nobody else is going to stand up for transvestites.

I want to stand up for what I believe in, and I don't think it's right when people say things or bash people because of their sexual orientation.

Kids will always find something to pick on, whether it's your color, your religion, the way you look, your size. You try and stand up for yourself, but it's really difficult when you've got 20 or 30 girls against you.

I've been a homosexual all my life. My partner and I don't want to stand up and say we're gay, because we think that's wrong.

If the standard transsexual person wants to be regarded as he or she, my sense is I'll address you according to the part that you appear to be playing.

That's what hurts the environmental movement - holding people to a standard they cannot meet. That just pushes people away.

There are so many Muslim women that feel like they don't fit society's standard of beauty. I just wanted to tell them it's OK to be different; being different is beautiful, too.

All the academy will tell you that the language that is familiar to you is not appropriate. and that's not to say that there shouldn't be a standard, but when I come to school with my friends' language, my grandmother's language, the language in my mouth - you're going to tell me that's improper?

Beauty has no set standard. It is honestly in diversity.

People have set that up as a standard, not to recognize a prophet in his own country.

I want the same standard applied to homosexuals as is applied to heterosexuals.

I think culturally, even if you just talk about it in context, the standard of beauty has not included women of color. Period. Not just black women. If you are not a certain thing, there has not been space for you.

What I didn't tell her was that I distinctly remember walking out of my junior year English class reading, 'Amandla Stenberg comes out as queer.' She unknowingly set a precedent in my life, a gold standard of how to be proud and exist in the intersectionality of multiple identities that were one thought of as being conflicting.

My husband didn't want me to wear any black hairstyles. Nicole Kidman was his standard of beauty.

I'd like to shut off all the noise and allow people to be creative without all the judgments and standards that we think we have to follow.

The parts that I get to play are not based around the European beauty standards: They're more about character, and I love that.

The best thing they've told me is to be forgiving of yourself as a mother. I think you go into it, and you want to hold yourself to the highest standards, and you want to be perfect. That's not possible. You make mistakes and learn.

There are different ways that kids who are gay take on the rejection and alienation they feel. The way I dealt with it was to say, 'You know what? You're imposing judgments on me and condemnations, but I don't accept them. I'm going to instead turn the light on you and see what your flaws are and impose the same judgmental standards on you.'

It's ridiculous that we are in a place where we feel like we can classify and dismiss certain groups of people just because of the way they look, or we have these standards of health - like, cellulite is something you need to get rid of. No, it isn't. It's just a part of people's bodies.