Bill Shorten Quotes

When I have kids, when I have a family and nieces and nephews, I'm gonna teach them to love more and be kinder and to not judge someone by the colour of their skin or any other thing.

It's no longer good enough for us to tell kids who are different that it's gonna get better. We have to make it better now.

I connect deeply with SAVE's mission and I realize it doesn't matter which specific group you're fighting for, that everyone deserves equality, everyone deserves safety, and everyone deserves to be able to live their lives free of hate, fear and discrimination.

I think for me, as a gay person, I can convince a lot more people to be for gay marriage by not screaming at them and berating them and embarrassing them and belittling them, but by showing them that we're all exactly the same.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

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

You have to respect everybody's desires and way of living.

I'm not against anybody. I'm really not. I'm not a hater. I'm not homophobic. I honestly don't care what people do personally in their individual lives.

Tolerance is not really a lived virtue; it's more of a cerebral ascent.

Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.

And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.

The only places where I have found that simple human dignity, that respect for the other man, and the gracious feel of tolerance and humanity have not been either among the heroes of the class-struggle or the 'thinking men' but among my simple 'backward' people.

We, as Americans, do our level best to avoid being cruel to one another; we're led out of a diverse nation to come together and learn how to live with one another in a way that elevates everyone and our way of life. We've tried mightily to renew and imagine - imagine anew what it means to be free, what it means to be fair.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.

For me, I grew up in a house doing charity work for homeless people, and my parents had a lot of homeless friends. We were always taught to not discriminate and not judge.

When all of us are acknowledged as the human equals that we really are, there will be no space left for bullying. It will no longer be wrong to choose one thing over another.

All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness.

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 think we need to treat everybody with dignity.

No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society.