Thomas Chatterton Williams Quotes

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

With all of the divisiveness that is going on in the country we live in, so much of it is based around just fear of the other. And anyone who does not look like me, walk like me, talk like me, have sex like me, they're the other and I'm afraid of them. And hopefully we will learn that it's just not scary. There's nothing to be afraid of.

When you have friends that are Muslim, Jewish, gay, from any marginalized group, you realize that they are so much more than this esoteric talking point.

Because something or someone looks or acts differently from us does not necessarily mean that it is ugly or bad.

I don't want anybody to feel like they're different.

I think, with every kind of creature and every kind of human, there is no better. We're all just mutations, and I think that each mutation should be celebrated.

We're all different, and we have to accept and tolerate each other's characteristics.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

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.

We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.

If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.

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.

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

No one is born hating others.

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.

Diversity means understanding.

Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity.

I do not believe that the people of Ontario judge their leaders on the basis of race, sexual orientation, colour or religion. I don't believe they hold that prejudice in their hearts.

What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.

I celebrate diversity. It's what makes us great.

Experience tells us that people are not born with the innate ability nor the wish to see the Other as an equal individual in society. Pride in one’s separate identity can be so strong that it obscures the intrinsic value of other identities. Pluralism is a value that must be taught.

We need not think alike to love alike.

Don't let anyone keep you down for silly reasons such as who you are.