Michael Che Quotes

As an actor, you come in contact with so many different people and cultures. It makes you a more accepting person.

Basically, we are all different and we all have something to learn and it doesn't mean people need to change who you are but one should be open to new things and, above all, tolerance and understanding are essential for growth and happiness.

Travel teaches tolerance.

People need to learn to take everyone as they are.

If we want to change something, we must begin with understanding. But if we want to love something, we must begin with acceptance.

The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge.

We need to be open minded to understand that there are lots of different levels of things going on and we shouldn't be so quick to judge - and certainly not to judge a whole race, a whole religion or a whole people - and a lot of that is going on.

Being able to allow people to be who they are without trying to change them is important.

You think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like you. But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew.

I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.

Being free is being able to accept people for what they are, and not try to understand all they are or be what they are.

There isn't any reason to dislike people with whom you disagree. I have lots of friends who don't agree with me.

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.

You know, the more you can meet people from different walks of life, the better it is for you. I think the more you can create situations and experiences that give you new perspective, the better.

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.

For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

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

I try to look for the good in everybody, regardless of the way they're labeled.

I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.

Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

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

I love the exploration of someone who has such a different background from you. That exploration runs to compassion and to cracking yourself open and creating more understanding of how weird and amazing life is.

We have to accept the world has become this place where we have to interact with people who are very different from us.

As for my 'real life,' yes, I do have friends who are different from me, and I find it refreshing being around them.