Gene Roddenberry Quotes

People will always look different from each other in ways we can't control. What we can control is what we allow ourselves to make of those differences.

If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.

People do get ridiculed for liking us or because they look the way they do and they're a part of what we do.

Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity.

I do not believe that the people of Ontario judge their leaders on the basis of race, sexual orientation, colour or religion. I don't believe they hold that prejudice in their hearts.

The greatest lesson I learned that year in Mrs. Henry's class was the lesson Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to teach us all: Never judge people by the color of their skin. God makes each of us unique in ways that go much deeper.

At the end of the day, people have to respect people's differences. I am different than some people would like me to be.

I would never belong to any club that excluded anybody for race.

I remember while I was at school some of my Muslim friends talked about a handful of people spoiling things in every culture. Hatred or hurt or pain isn't specific to a religion. I think it's a matter of acceptance. The one thing the world has to accept is everybody is different. What is normal to us is different and unusual to somebody else.

Discrimination is not liberal. Arguing against discrimination is not intolerance.

If I do a good job, people won't care if I am green or have three heads.

We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.

Nobody should mistreat anybody. Homosexuals should not be mistreated. Heterosexuals should not be mistreated. Bisexuals should not be mistreated.

Of course, the majority of us would speak up in the face of outrageous bigotry, but do we speak up in a social situation when someone casually refers to something as 'gay'? If we don't, we are standing with the homophobes whom we are quietly fighting.

Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.

Discrimination and prejudice of any kind have no place in sports or in our society.

I think we should all be tolerant of each other and embrace each others' strengths and differences and uniqueness and beauty.

I find 'Edward Scissorhands' a very inspiring movie - it's one of the first movies about bullying, in a way - about being treated unkindly for being different.

With all of the divisiveness that is going on in the country we live in, so much of it is based around just fear of the other. And anyone who does not look like me, walk like me, talk like me, have sex like me, they're the other and I'm afraid of them. And hopefully we will learn that it's just not scary. There's nothing to be afraid of.

In the 21st Century there is no place for Xenephobia, Anti-Semitism of any other form of discrimination.

I am groping about through this American forest of prejudice and proscription, determined to find some form of civilization where all men will be accepted for what they are worth.

Don't let anyone keep you down for silly reasons such as who you are.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

I believe nobody should be discriminated against.

To feel like someone is excluded is something I'm very sensitive about. I'd never want any human being to feel that they are not welcome because of a certain thing, whether it's religion, sexual orientation, their sex or their skin colour.