Lena Dunham Quotes

My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.

I'm not asking that people accept homosexuality. I'm not asking that they believe like I do that it's inborn. I'm not asking that. All I'm saying is don't let these children suffer without a family because of your bias.

Parents: instead of teaching our children to be brave boys or pretty girls, can we maybe just teach them how to be good humans?

Dear America, when you tell gay Americans that they can't serve their country openly or marry the person that they love, you're telling that to kids too. So don't be f**king shocked and wonder where all these bullies are coming from that are torturing young kids and driving them to kill themselves because they're different; they learned it from watching you.

A lot of subjects blend into the same thing: intolerance. When you're a little kid, you don't know that it's going to get better. Your life experience hasn't told you that. I want to protect those people. I want to send out a message and at least try to get that across.

Let's stop being so damn judgemental & crucifying everyone who doesn't fit into our boxed-in perceptions of what is right.

Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.

To heal will require real effort, and a change of heart, from all of us. To heal means that we will begin to look upon one another with respect and tolerance instead of prejudice, distrust and hatred. We will have to teach our children-as well as ourselves-to love the diversity of humanity....We can do it. Yes, you and I and all of us together. Now is the time. Now is the only possible time. Let the Great Healing begin.

Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried to cast gay men and lesbians as the new enemy, calculating deviants seducing the nation's young, anti-Avon ladies selling sodomy door-to-door. This simply won't wash. Just as seeing the Russians up close and personal on television humanized them, so seeing the lesbian grandmother of two little girls wearing her gold medal with pride makes the notion of otherness, much less deviance, silly and ignorant.

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

I am committed to examining my feelings and will recognize, appreciate and respect the differences among people in our society.

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.

There are a lot of groups that feel a little bit strange around me, because I am inclusive.

Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance.

I don't have a hateful bone in my body. I don't believe anyone should be bullied or made to feel bad about who they are.

Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization.

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

If you love someone, you love someone. It doesn't matter; age, colour, c'mon!

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.

I'm not homophobic, I'm not a bigot, I'm not pandering to hatred.

It would never occur to me to judge anyone.

I don't agree that everyone should agree with everyone's lifestyle. I think that some people aren't going to agree, but I think that when you're mean and when you ridicule people it's a sign of your own insecurities.

Homosexuality is acceptable in the West.

Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.