Del Shores Quotes

Making those around you feel invisible is the opposite of leadership.

I think a lot of the source of how people are treated depends on the fact if someone recognizes them as a human being or not, you know what I mean?

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.

Respect... is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique.

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

It's no longer good enough for us to tell kids who are different that it's gonna get better. We have to make it better now.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

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

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

This Machine Kills Hate

To me you cannot be fully human, fully civilised, unless you recognise humanity in everyone.

Safe Schools has been labelled a lot of things: Marxism, cultural relativism, 'grooming,' and part of something called the 'rainbow ideology.' But Safe Schools is not about imposing an ideology or an 'ism.' It's about teaching our kids to treat everyone equally, to understand rather than judge.

I learned tolerance at a very early age.

Tolerance says I am just going to stomach your right to be different. That if you disappear from the face of the earth, I am no better or worse off. But love - love knows that every American has worth and value, no matter what their background, race, religion, or sexual orientation.

The more you learn about someone, how could you not want to protect them and their rights? The more you learn about a culture or a certain identity, it's hard to not feel empathy.

To win Best Director at Sundance was beyond anything I could have imagined for myself. It's still an incredible feeling to know I won. But as happy as I am about winning, I also know many other women of color have directed amazing films over the years that were equally deserving and didn't win.

I connect deeply with SAVE's mission and I realize it doesn't matter which specific group you're fighting for, that everyone deserves equality, everyone deserves safety, and everyone deserves to be able to live their lives free of hate, fear and discrimination.

I am honored to be receiving the Point Courage Award.

My naivety is to assume people will think there's compassion and solidarity in wanting to play someone even though we are not them.

Britain has united to send a strong message to anyone who seeks to peddle hate. Together we are stronger. Together we can beat hate.

I believe it's our responsibility to show our communities the value of all people, to celebrate different, and to take a stand for acceptance and inclusion.

Every time you say 'I don't want to hear it' when someone is going to tell an ethnic joke, or every time you help somebody cross the street or put money in the bucket in your place of worship, you're making a difference.

My dad taught not only tolerance but appreciation for every human being.