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Quotes About Acceptance

Papa!" she whispered. "I have no eyes!"He patted the girl's hair. She'd fallen into his trap. "With a smile like that, " Hans Hubermann said, "you don't need eyes.
~ Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
A smile doesn't always stand for a perfect life.
~ Faraaz Kazi
So, he, uhm, all ac/ac, or a little ac/dc?" she asked, blushing, and Chase's grin about swallowed his face."He claims to be ac/dc, " he said, watching her face light up completely.
~ Amy Lane, Chase in Shadow
Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.
~ Christina Rossetti
To all the girls that think you're fat because you're not a size zero, you're the beautiful one, its society who's ugly.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.
~ Dorothy Day
Every girl is beautiful, it's society that's ugly.
~ Oliver Sykes
Those we most often exclude from the normal life of society, people with disabilities, have profound lessons to teach us
~ Jean Vanier
You are only afriad if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves. A whole society composed of men afraid of the unknown within them!
~ Hermann Hesse
Diversity may be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.
~ William Sloane Coffin
How do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance -- the one value that is indispensable in creating community.
~ Barbara Jordan
You want society to accept you; but you can't even accept yourself.
~ Michael Fassbender
Loving, knowing, and respecting our bodies is a powerful and invincible act of rebellion in this society.
~ Inga Muscio
I use my job to engage empathy and compassion for people society might stereotype or ostricise.
~ Michael K. Williams
I think it has a terrible impact when you don't see yourself reflected in the society because then you get the feeling you don't belong.
~ Sonia Manzano
We cannot go back to a racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic type of society.
~ Bernie Sanders
It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness.
~ Glenn Close
Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.
~ Carter Burwell
Racism is a disease in society. We're all equal. I don't care what their colour is, or religion. Just as long as they're human beings they're my buddies.
~ Mandawuy Yunupingu
Parents need to be more accepting of who their kids are and less concerned about what society thinks they need to be.
~ Neil Patrick Harris
Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.
~ John Major
These days, the problem isn't how to innovate; it's how to get society to adopt the good ideas that already exist.
~ Douglas Engelbart
Where can you scream? It's a serious question: where can you go in society and scream?
~ R. D. Laing
If you want a strong society, it has to be inclusive. If you have to push a boulder up a hill, do you want 10 people or 100? If you weed out colour or gender, you get 10.
~ Cyndi Lauper