Ben Hopkins Quotes

I want a world where everything is welcome, everything is valid, everything is acknowledged, embraced, and accepted. To me, that's a perfect world.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding and mutual respect.

I do a lot of gay-friendly stuff in my show, and men, women, they all love it. I practice non-judgment in my daily life and hope other people do the same thing.

Tolerance says I am just going to stomach your right to be different. That if you disappear from the face of the earth, I am no better or worse off. But love - love knows that every American has worth and value, no matter what their background, race, religion, or sexual orientation.

If tolerance is the best we can do in this moment, then by all means let's be tolerant. But by stopping there, by merely tolerating each other, we miss so much.

You can't close the door on anybody.

My dad taught not only tolerance but appreciation for every human being.

Embrace the humanity of everyone, especially those you don't understand.

I have friends who are black, white, purple, gay, straight, Martian, yellow, old, and young. I have friends who are animals and a few who I believe to be robots. All of them are people to me. In my mind, it's not about what you look like or what you do; it's about who you are inside.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

You make yourself broad. You make yourself appealing. 'Hey, y'all, I'm cool with everybody.' That's my message.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I'm not here to preach hate or push people down.

I love all people, whatever race they are.

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.

I am committed to examining my feelings and will recognize, appreciate and respect the differences among people in our society.

My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.

I love all people; I hate no one.

I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.

I love everybody. You have to embrace all facets of humanity; love and accept everyone as being part of yourself.

I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.

Regardless of who you are or who you like, love is love.

Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.