Dustin Lance Black Quotes

We need to build bridges between the LGBT community and the larger immigrant community. In the end, the bigger the tent we build, the more successful we'll be.

There are millions and millions of patriotic Muslim Americans.

Don’t divide the world into “them” and “us.”

By 2000, the last traces if racial and religious discrimination will have disappeared [from New York City].

Our differences needn't divide us, but unity takes work.

We can focus on differences that divide us, or we can choose to listen and learn from each other's experiences.

When you get to know a lot of people, you make a great discovery. You find that no one group has a monopoly on looks, brains, goodness or anything else. It takes all the people - black and white, Catholic, Jewish and Protestant, recent immigrants and Mayflower descendants - to make up America.

Some are short, others are tall, others are thin, others are stocky. But we are all human beings. Can we not live together and happily within one border?

I believe, whether it is the United States or Europe, they will all end up as multicultural societies. So India's this great experiment of a billion people of such great diverse persuasion, working together, seeking their salvation in the framework of a democracy. I believe it will have some lessons for all the multicultural societies.

As footballers, you just grow up with people from different backgrounds and different colors of skin.

It is so important for European countries, post-Second World War, to prove that they can be successful multiethnic and multiracial democracies. I think we in Britain have had great success in avoiding the hatreds and prejudices of the past.

London's greatest strength is our diversity, and it's wonderful to see Londoners celebrating our capital's different traditions, determined to stand up to division.

We are a country where people of all backgrounds, all nations of origin, all languages, all religions, all races, can make a home. America was built by immigrants.

In Florida, we're the best melting pot in the world. We love everybody coming to our state.

I know and I've always felt for Canada that we recognize that diversity is a great source of strength.

We must learn to live together, and the framework of Zionism must know how to include everyone.

I try to remind people that there are a lot of good people, all colors. Then there's some bad ones, too. But there's a lot of good people who really care.

I think the world has a place for gay superheroes, certainly.

Too many of us still believe our differences define us.

I worry when each of us is seduced by visions of the future that have no place for the other.

Think about how our country was built. The greatness came from our diversity; the greatness came from individuals with different perspectives coming together.

One reason I'm grateful to call Hawai'i home is that the people of these islands embrace diversity and celebrate the colorful fabric of race, ethnicity, and religion that make up our people, place, and culture.

We have left and right; religious and secular; Druse; ultra-Orthodox women. Unity is very important.

I grew up in an environment in Birmingham that was really multicultural, with black kids, Irish kids, Indian kids.

Mom got very heated about the new government policy of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. In her view it was going to allow closeted gay people into her military and she was really against it... she just assumed I agreed with her opinions.