Quotes About Acceptance

I don't see how you can separate human rights and the rights of all people, no matter what their sexual orientation is.

Maybe our work appeals to some people more than others. But the opportunities that I present to my colleagues are completely uninfluenced by gender, race, sexual orientation, or religion.

I'm grateful to the LGBTQ community for giving me the courage to write music about who I am and not just about my sexual orientation.

At the end of the day, I say, 'You do you.' You shouldn't be focusing on convincing people what your sexual orientation is.

I wouldn't want anyone to tell me that I couldn't marry the person I loved, and I don't want to do that to anyone else regardless of sexual orientation.

Whatever you sexual orientation is, it doesn't affect how you work or who you are or what you do.

I respect footballers of any skin colour and any sexual orientation.

Many young people, many children, are being abused, being put down, being bullied because of their sexual orientation.

No American should have to live in constant fear that their employer can fire them just because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.

For me, if a company is really committed to diversity, that means everything. That means gender diversity, that means sexual orientation for me, that means race, ethnicity.

I believe that individuals in our country should not face discrimination for their sex or their gender or their sexual orientation.

Fans are going to give you crap no matter what sexual orientation you are.

I will do everything in my power to ensure our country is a place where everyone, whatever their gender identity or sexual orientation, can be themselves and live their lives with dignity and respect.

I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I was working, my friends were all adults. I had a tough time going to different schools because people knew me from films and I was the fat child who got beaten up every day.

My dear compatriots, I'm not interested in your race, your origin, your sexual orientation. What interests me is your happiness.

We should be the natural home for the millions of Britons of immigrant origin. But we're not. Because too often we've sounded like people who wish they hadn't come here at all.

It's not my place to say how Zoe Saldana perceives herself, and I can't say how anybody else perceives her, either. I see her as a black person of Hispanic origin, but I don't even know what that really means, because I don't know anything about race and Hispanic culture.

We don't intend to always keep this necessarily African oriented. Originally I had hoped to have African American Indian of this area, and the Appalachian of this area, but at the same time, just as we have the Haitian room, we will always have room for another exhibit.

I originally thought I'd grow up to be a woman. I didn't question that when I was little.

I originally came out as gay when I was a teenager, then backtracked when I thought I had closed off the market a bit!

Most people would accept that people come to London from across the world, from all kinds of backgrounds, and are accepted here irrespective of their origins.

I needed New Orleans so badly back in 2006, just somebody to believe in me, somebody to care about me.

I'm from New Orleans, Louisiana. It's not a black-and-white type of thing down there. It's a very cultural place. Everybody has the same accent. It's not like if you're white we can't hang with you or anything like that. So it's easy for us to call each other out on our things.

I don't think I can go back to New Orleans. I don't think that's possible.