Marco Tempest Quotes

To survive, the GOP needs to invite people in, not shut them out.

I'm not looking to exclude people, I'm looking to include them.

An open-door policy doesn't do much for a closed mind.

Now is not the time for us to shy away from challenging ourselves to make substantive change for the better. We have the opportunity to raise the bar in the faith-based world by forging a culture in which inclusivity, diversity, and equality are paramount.

Just as every Jewish couple gets married under a canopy open on all four sides - a replica of the tent modeled for us by Abraham and Sarah - so must Jewish communities keep our tents open. This is the true source of our longevity and resilience.

I like to knock down walls and allow others to enter.

You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.

'Drag Race' has taught me a lot about how to form community, to take myself less seriously and lose some ego.

That's a goal of mine and the sport. To become more diverse and change the demographic, bring in a new face.

Diversity is very, very important. I talk about it frequently. And my efforts there should never be challenged no matter what my political view.

New York. Truly, this is the only city that I feel this energy. Everyone is accepted. This is the first place that I felt open and that I can do everything.

I embrace everybody for who and what they are.

I want to be the first guy to help people accept everybody for who they are. I'm talking about colors, religions, sex, everybody. My music is for everybody, it's not just for one kind of group.

I appreciate the decision made by Gov. Brewer to veto this legislation. I hope that we can now move on from this controversy and assure the American people that everyone is welcome to live, work and enjoy our beautiful State of Arizona.

Everyone—whether straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender—should be allowed to show their true colors, and be accepted and loved for who they are.

It's not enough to be tolerant...now we're finally moving towards the idea of acceptance.

I am willing to move out of my comfort zone and experience life in a new way.

I don't see anyone as being different than anyone else, whether you're gay or straight or whatever - everyone's the same. That's how I was raised.

I think you ought to be open-minded as to where life takes you.

Let the shameful walls of exclusion finally come tumbling down.

Community is not an ideal; it is people. It is you and I. In community we are called to love people just as they are with their wounds and their gifts, not as we want them to be.

Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.

I have one major rule: Everybody is right. More specifically, everybody — including me — has some important pieces of truth, and all of those pieces need to be honored, cherished, and included in a more gracious, spacious, and compassionate embrace.

History, the winnowing wind, never halts. We see the chaff rise, forget the waiting grain, seed of the future, fallen to the threshing floor. We never learn, but live on, slit-narrow, as if our living were a pencil line traced upon paper, behaving as trapped denizens of a flat world hemmed in by the bigoted horizon of our own making. Yet the meaning of living is a pushing back, a pulling down of the great walls and domes of fear and ignorance, is relinquishing the nest for the sky, ignorance for understanding. The look back is also a look forward.