Emily Saliers Quotes

With all the people hating and hurting each other, I don't understand how people could get upset about people of the same sex caring for each other.

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

Try finding love, rather than finding fault.

I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.

You can't expect everyone to love you. I'm not someone who just wants to throw out hate, just because.

A true man hates no one.

Love is love. And it's much better than hatred and fear.

There's still a tremendous amount of homophobia out there in the world, but it is what it is. I am who I am, and the people in my life are who they are, and they love us, hate us, for whatever reason. It is what it is.

The only thing that can conquer hate is love.

'Laramie' is a way in to replacing any hate in your heart with understanding, compassion, and acceptance.

I want people to realize that we can teach hate, but we also can teach love.

Hate is a learned reaction, and it can be unlearned.

In this world where we live, some people are going to love you, some people are going to hate you - that's what it is. You cannot try to force everybody to love you, it's not gonna work.

There are people who try to judge. I'm cool with that. I don't care what nobody say - the only thing that can defeat hate is love.

You don't have to read the Quran to love me... love the actions, love the things that I do. Look at those, and that will help people get beyond whatever fear or stereotypical thing that they might be thinking about.

I don't know how racists live with their racism. We need to take the road of love. I don't think folks are born that way; it's learned and taught out of fear.

When you know someone's story, it becomes much harder to hate them.

Why shouldn't gay people be able to live as open and freely as everybody else? What it comes down to, ultimately, is love. How can anything bad come out of love? The bad stuff comes out of mistrust, misunderstanding and, God knows, from hate and from ignorance.

It doesnt always help us to love the world,but it does prevent us from hating the world.

Having a big gay following, I get hate mail and threats. Some people are blind or ignorant, and you can't be that prejudiced and hateful and go through this world and still be happy.

Unity is what we are afraid of so fear is insanity. Let’s love each other.

Just because you're gay, I won't turn you away. If you stick around, I'm sure we can find some common ground.

We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.

See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.

To understand everything is to hate nothing.