Indya Moore Quotes

Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.

No one should be discriminated against because of their sexual orientation.

Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.

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.

There are two or three ways to combat homophobia - one is through humor. The second is to put a face on it.

I'm usually in control of the room, but if I sense some kind of hostility, I address it. Occasionally, there are pockets of homophobia, and it's not just the South - it's all over the country.

No matter if someone has personal feelings about my sexuality or how they view me, it's all of our job to continue to show up in spaces where we can say, 'You know what? I can figure out how to try to work with you.'

With all the people hating and hurting each other, I don't understand how people could get upset about people of the same sex caring for each other.

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.

As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.

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.'

I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport.

We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now.

Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.

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

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.

You can have all of the laws and protection in place, but how do you get rid of homophobia? This is something that the U.S. is going to have to deal with.

We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.

We can be more inclusive.

I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity.

God did not create gays and lesbians so He could have something to hate!

We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions.

If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience.

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

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.