Michael Moore Quotes

I hope we build a son who's strong enough to stand up for other people. And if Donald Trump is out there teaching folks how to build walls, we're hoping to instil in our son the ability to know how to take them down.

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity - these are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.

If we want to change this culture of hate and bigotry, every one of us must stand up and speak with one voice to condemn it, because an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us.

I've always thought it's the qualities of a person that matter. Not their breed, their shape, their color, their sexual preference, age... It's the qualities of their character.

My mom has always taught me to stand up for people who don't have a voice.

I just think bad vibes and hate and Trump are getting so much airtime, we need to speak out loud for peace and equality and fairness and make sure we all know that there are a lot of us out here in the world that just want love.

I just want people to be equal and fair to each other.

When you're nice, you're not bullying people. But when you're kind, you stand up against the bully.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

When I have kids, when I have a family and nieces and nephews, I'm gonna teach them to love more and be kinder and to not judge someone by the colour of their skin or any other thing.

And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.

It's no longer good enough for us to tell kids who are different that it's gonna get better. We have to make it better now.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.'

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness.

I think we need to treat everybody with dignity.

Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

I'm trying to create the world around myself to be a place of as much equality and openheartedness as possible.

We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society.

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

Together, we can build the kind of world in which we all seek to live, one of universal equality and justice.

What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.