William Joyce Quotes

The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.

It's so easy to call something a Jewish story or a gay story or a woman's story. Aesthetically, if a story is not universal, it has failed. Your obligation is to the story. One rule creatively, and emotionally, is its universality.

There are people who've said that I'm being brave for being openly supportive of gay marriage, gay adoption... With all due respect, I humbly dissent. I am not being brave, I'm a decent human being... Love is a human experience, not a political statement

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.

And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.

Everyone working on 'Tyrant' wants to present the world and the issues in it in an intelligent, open, fair, non-reductive kind of way. For the actors, we have to try and make these stories as truthful and compelling as possible.

We can be more inclusive.

The thing about storytelling is it's very stripped down; it's very much at the core of 'I'm a person and I'm just telling you this thing, and I need you to trust me and believe that what I'm saying is true, and if you believe that what I'm saying is true then we are connected to each other.' I think there's something really beautiful about that.

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

We must display a heart for every American, and a special passion for those still on the first rung of life's ladder.

As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.

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

I'm trying to create the world around myself to be a place of as much equality and openheartedness as possible.

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society.

I've always said if what I'm going to create doesn't look good on everybody, I'm not going to do it.

Compassion is not a sloppy sentimental feeling for people ... it is an absolutely practical belief that regardless of a person's background, ability or ability to pay, he should be provided with the best that society has to offer.

In order to have a large number of values in common, all members of the group must have an equitable opportunity to receive and to take from others. Members must be able to accept each other’s ideas and must be able to compromise. There must be a large variety of shared undertakings and experiences. Otherwise, the influences … educate some into masters, educate others into slaves.

The dream of diversity is like the dream of equality. Both are based on ideals we celebrate even as we undermine them daily.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

The more we can treat people equally, the more likely they are to treat each other equally.

I feel equal to Mexicans, Asians, everyone. That's the kind of positive message I want to get out.

If we want to change this culture of hate and bigotry, every one of us must stand up and speak with one voice to condemn it, because an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us.

Hatred, bigotry, and discrimination have no place in our country. We must work hard to make sure that America remains an inclusive and respectful country.