Valerie June Quotes

My dear compatriots, I'm not interested in your race, your origin, your sexual orientation. What interests me is your happiness.

It is our responsibility to find God in someone who is different from us. I think that God basically says, 'I created diversity on purpose, and it is your responsibility to figure out how to make it work.'

We can be more inclusive.

The value of tolerance is central to living in today's world - especially in diverse places like the Bronx.

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

Throughout my work is the idea, over and over, that we must all learn to respect one another.

Our goal should be to understand our differences.

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.

We need not think alike to love alike.

Education, Love & Acceptance are the First Steps to Breaking Down Barriers

Tolerance actually does exist on Broadway.

'Laramie' is a way in to replacing any hate in your heart with understanding, compassion, and acceptance.

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

We must create a climate where people agree that human beings are more alike than unalike. The only way to do that is through education.

Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend.

We [people] need to stop lumping folks together and start living together. Otherwise, we're going to kill each other off because you don't believe what I believe. That's crazy.

It's not just about me. It's about all of us, accepting one another. We're all different... That's a good thing.

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.

What we need to do is learn to respect and embrace our differences until our differences don't make a difference in how we are treated.

Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.

The people of Canada have worked hard to build a country that opens its doors to include all, regardless of their differences; a country that respects all, regardless of their differences; a country that demands equality for all, regardless of their differences.

Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

I love diversity.

It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.