Peter Dinklage Quotes

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.

Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.

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.

When you have friends that are Muslim, Jewish, gay, from any marginalized group, you realize that they are so much more than this esoteric talking point.

Racism has a very quick expiration date when exposed to actual contact with people.

In so many ways, my soccer career taught me about seeing the value of all people, whether or not society sees it first. Relationships with people who are perceived to be 'different' have taught me the same lesson.

It's not diversity that is going to destroy us, but fear of diversity.

There is a stigma around athletes, and I think the more that us as humans can do to break those, the better.

I just want to see more understanding and less racism in sports.

If we could truly experience one another, we could end bigotry.

People will always look different from each other in ways we can't control. What we can control is what we allow ourselves to make of those differences.

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

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.

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

I try to support groups that are about educating people about different races, different religions, different cultures and different situations so that we can break down the barriers of prejudice and bigotry.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

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.

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.'

When I have kids, when I have a family and nieces and nephews, I'm gonna teach them to love more and be kinder and to not judge someone by the colour of their skin or any other thing.

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.

It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.

We can be more inclusive.

If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.

There's nothing wrong with being a cop. There's nothing wrong with being a white person. It's about where your heart is... We've got to get everyone beyond the xenophobic isolationism.