Quotes About Acceptance

I think there's a time in your life where you don't feel like you fit in. I think everyone has that when you're a teenager, especially, and especially in the society we live in.

It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me.

I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society

That decision to use basically all white models, reveals a trait that is unbecoming to modern society. It can no longer be accepted...

The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.

Society gives legitimacy and society can take it away.

I have no bones to pick and no fight with society. And I'm willing to be and interested in being in the mainstream of society.

I think we live in a pluralistic society where we have to get along with each other and show common grace to each other.

does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well? what if the memory is too dangerous for the people who like things the way they are?

In America, we have struggled too much, too long as a country trying to overcome racism and sexism and homophobia. We cannot go back to a more discriminatory society.

We live in a society that is afraid of ways of being it doesn't understand.

A society that condemns homosexuality harms itself. (254)

There is one thing that has disappeared, not just from the U.S. but from the entire world, is the idea of ever being embarrassed by anything.

When someone else's safety and acceptance in society is on the line, your personal discomfort comes in a very distant second.

I wish we lived in a society that made it safe and provided the courage for everyone to come out.

When you have increased migration of peoples and ethnic and religious minorities, you develop a set of rules and language the larger society can accept and the minority community can accept.

A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.

As society has changed, what had formerly been unacceptable has become colorful.

I was never accepted into certain parts of New England society because my grandfather was an Irish barkeep.

Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.

I want to be a part of something, and when we define movies now based on how they do on the weekend. We live in a society of "thumbs up, thumbs down."

Muslims are the new mutants of today's society.

My immediate family was always very supportive. It was my own fear of the rest of the world not accepting me, the rest of our society not accepting my wish to be an actor.

You're the beautiful one. It's society that's ugly.