Eline Powell Quotes

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

Anyone is welcome to hang out with me and have fun or sit down with me and talk. I don't discriminate against anyone. And I don't condone hating someone or treating them badly because they live differently than I do.

I want people to be more accepting.

I hope we can all learn to embrace who we are & not judge people who aren't exactly the same as us.

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.

I'm not against anybody. I'm really not. I'm not a hater. I'm not homophobic. I honestly don't care what people do personally in their individual lives.

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

You can be for someone without being against someone else.

Honestly, I just have to do what's right for me, and what I would tell people is what I believe, which is that tolerance is very important.

We have to believe that we can hold different points of view without labeling each other bad feminists.

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

I'm pretty open to all walks of life.

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

It is my goal to love everyone. I hate no one. Regardless of their race, religion, their proclivities, the desire of their heart and how they want to live their life and the decisions that they make. I can even respect people's decisions and lifestyle choices just as I hope they have the courtesy to respect my decisions and my choices.

The thing about me is that I don't judge my audience. I welcome. It is a big tent.

I want to make people feel good about who they are regardless of who they are or where they come from or the color of their skin or what their family acts like or what they look like. I am all about acceptance of others and of yourself.

My idea of religion is we are supposed to bring people together. We are not supposed to judge other people.

I think for me, as a gay person, I can convince a lot more people to be for gay marriage by not screaming at them and berating them and embarrassing them and belittling them, but by showing them that we're all exactly the same.

My best friends - the people I trust the most - are Catholic, Jewish, African-American, gay, tall, short, blonde... you name it. I love people for their hearts, not their appearance or lifestyle.

I was raised to believe you are supposed to love everybody.

In everything I do, I want people to get the message of acceptance, to learn not to practice contempt without investigation. I have an obligation to do it.

We, as a society, need to be open-minded.

I was raised in an open-minded home. I was raised a Christian, but I was raised open-minded Christian - one to accept people, love people, not pass judgment.

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

I'm very accepting of how people live their lives.