Abby Huntsman Quotes

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.

Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together.

What I do is I always try to educate myself about my neighbors, about the people I meet.

I think it doesn't matter, the color of your skin; it doesn't matter where you are from. It matters how you relate to people, how you connect with people, and the open-mindedness with which you approach the subject. That's to me what matters when you are making a film, not who you are or where you are from.

I think I've advanced my views with compassion and tolerance.

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

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

I could be less impatient with people. I sometimes judge by impressions.

I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand about their life, the more you can sympathize with them or even root for them.

I think at an early age I learned not to judge people.

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.

I love human beings. I believe that there is so much to learn from every person you meet, including a child.

One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

I come from a very non-accepting family, but I'm very accepting.

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 highest result of education is tolerance.

Sometimes we are separated by differences, and sometimes we are united by common ideals of respect and compassion.

We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around.

That differences of race, color, and creed are natural, and that diverse groups, institutions, and ideas are stimulating factors in the development of man; That to promote harmony in diversity is a responsible task of religion and statesmanship; That since no individual can express the whole truth, it is essential to treat with understanding and good will those whose views differ from our own; That by the testimony of history intolerance is the door to violence, brutality and dictatorship; and That the realization of human interdependence and solidarity is the best guard of civilization.

When you connect to someone on a human level, and you get to know about them, you can begin to love the things that make them different.

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

I've been in enough positions to respect people with different views.

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.