Dylan McDermott Quotes

My heart goes out to kids with autism.

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.

I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.

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.

I'm definitely more understanding of people who have disabilities and who are suffering.

We must build relationships, get to know one another's children, open our arms rather than close our hearts.

I have deep compassion and support for Bruce Jenner.

We're all human, and part of being human is showing respect and support for others' life choices.

I needed our fans to know they're loved and accepted, and fear isn't the way to go.

People with HIV and AIDS are nothing to be afraid of. They are people just like every single one of us, and each has a story to tell. These people should be helped, embraced, and not dismissed. We need to open our hearts and our minds to them, and we just may learn we're pretty much all the same.

I've always taken pride in relating to the underdog or little guy or gal.

My heart bleeds, goes out for families with kids with autism.

Everyone deserves compassion.

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.

Issues to do with disability, mental health and not being neurotypical often affect many genuine teenagers but are rarely reflected in the fiction they read.

If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

I'm human. But overall, whenever I see anyone being made fun of or given a hard time, I rush to their defense. I want to help them because I know how it feels.

It is our responsibility to find God in someone who is different from us. I think that God basically says, 'I created diversity on purpose, and it is your responsibility to figure out how to make it work.'

You have discovered so much kindness and good will to those you thought were oppressed, and had no helper, that I am sure you will not despise what I have wrote, if you judge it will be of any service to them.

Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories.

As I grew up, I became aware that there are people with special needs out there, and I have a real connection with them.

I think, really, that the only way a person can open their heart to someone who is so much another is really by knowing them... whether that's in a classroom, or a soccer team, or a food pantry, or any of those things. I mean, we're kind of more alike than we are different.

You can be for someone without being against someone else.

Honestly, I just have to do what's right for me, and what I would tell people is what I believe, which is that tolerance is very important.

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