Laura San Giacomo Quotes

Education, Love & Acceptance are the First Steps to Breaking Down Barriers

I feel like the world would be a better place if more people experienced a little bit of someone else's experience.

The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.

I want our students to be so accustomed to children of other cultures that the words 'diversity' and 'tolerance' won't be in their vocabulary. They won't need them - they'll live it.

To me, a political song is also a personal song. Most political activism has been driven by empathy for other people and the desire for a world that's less divisive. Even if songs aren't overtly political, they can make a listener more empathetic.

I feel that we have come a long way as American people, and we have to start looking at ourselves as human beings.

We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now.

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

I really care about people, and I would need someone to also genuinely value other human beings and want to be connected with people in the world and to know about other cultures. That might not be a high standard for someone else, but for me, it's really important to try and stick to that.

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.

In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.

As I lived on in America, I got to truly know the people of this country - so many kind and wonderful people, people of so many races - who helped me in so many ways. Who became my friends. I realized that underneath our different accents, habits, foods, religions, ways of thinking, we shared a common humanity.

Making sure that when my child went to school people were enlightened enough not to torture them, you know?

Toeing the starting line of a marathon, regardless of the language you speak, the God you worship or the color of your skin, we all stand as equal. Perhaps the world would be a better place if more people ran.

We need to put into practice the idea of embracing other cultures. We need to be shaping the kind of world we want to live in instead of waiting for someone else or some other entities to do it for us.

I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.

The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.

People need to spread love towards strangers. We all bleed the same blood and we are all part of a global community now.

I believe if people understood each other more, if people took the time and realize it's not 'all about me' and I'm on a big planet with a lot of other people and concerns, maybe we can learn how to get along with each other.

I've always thought that a lot of the problems in the world would be solved if a spaceship did arrive, then anyone with one head and two arms and two legs would be your brother! It wouldn't matter where they were from or what they believed or anything. It might be good for us.

We have torn down the barriers in our laws. Now we must break down the barriers in our lives, our minds and our hearts …

If we want to change this culture of hate and bigotry, every one of us must stand up and speak with one voice to condemn it, because an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us.

If I can help create empathy and balance in society, I'm going to do whatever I can to tell stories that subconsciously create that.

I think that is very important to me, that everyone loves everyone.

The politics of hope is harder to spread than the politics of hate.