Quotes About Acceptance

It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

Bad humour is an evasion of reality; good humour is an acceptance of it.

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.

Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.

That just the way it is. Some things will never change. That's just the way it is. But don't you believe them.

Don't you know that boys don't cry?' Adam grinned. 'Shall I tell you something I've only recently discovered,' I replied, not attempting to hide the tears rolling down my face and not the least bit ashamed of them. 'Boys don't cry, but real men do.

Sometimes the things you're convinced you don't want turn out to be the thing you need the most in this world.

Because my mum and dad brought me up to believe that people are different but equal. And that I should treat everyone, no matter who, with the same respect I'd like to be shown.

Was that all love did for you? Made you give up and give in? Left you open to pain and hurt?

I wish... I wish he wasn't quite so ashamed of me. And if he could stop feeling so ashamed of himself, then maybe we might stand a chance.

What was it about the differences in others that scared some people so much?

Sorry implies that if you could go back, you'd do things differently. We both know that you wouldn't change a thing.

You're not fifteen any more. You're not the idealistic kid who thought that, deep down, somewhere, somehow, in some way, life had to be fair." — Callum McGregor

You have to live in a world divided into Noughts and Crosses. A world where you will be biologically both and socially neither. Mixed race. Dual heritage. Labels to be attached.

Being in and being accepted are two different things.

myself. I'd felt ashamed of myself a lot recently, and, if I'm honest, part of me resented Callum for it. I didn't want to feel guilty for just being, but that's how he was beginning to make me feel.

It seemed to me we'd practised segregation for centuries now and that hadn't worked either. What would satisfy all the noughts and the Crosses who felt the same as Mum? Separate countries? Separate planets? How far away was far enough? What was it about the differences in others that scared some people so much?

That's just the way it is. Some things will never change. That's just the way it is. But you don't believe them.

That's just the point,' Callum said with sudden bitterness. 'This place is like the whole world and the whole world is like this place. So where could I go?

Ladies and gentlemen, for your delectation and delight, another performance of 'You're a nought and don't you ever forget it, blanker boy.

The truth doesn't stop being the truth just because you don't want to talk about it or won't face it.

She treated me like a real person. She didn't see me as just a colour