Julie Payette Quotes

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

We must display a heart for every American, and a special passion for those still on the first rung of life's ladder.

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

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.

I believe in people, and you don't need to be a feminist for that.

If we're constantly giving every one of our allies the woke test instead of inviting them to be more woke, we're doomed. You can be the most woke person of all time and be alone.

A just society is not one built on fear or repression or vengeance or exclusion, but one built on love. Love for our families. Love for our neighbors. Love for the least among us. Love for those who look different or worship differently. Love for those we don't even know.

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

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

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

If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.

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.

Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.

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.

You can be for someone without being against someone else.

As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.

I'm trying to create the world around myself to be a place of as much equality and openheartedness as possible.

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

If you want peace work for justice.

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

Together, we can build the kind of world in which we all seek to live, one of universal equality and justice.

Let's continue to stand up for those who are vulnerable to being left out or marginalized.

If you want peace, work for justice.

Let no more gods or exploiters be served. Let us learn rather to love one another.

That differences of race, color, and creed are natural, and that diverse groups, institutions, and ideas are stimulating factors in the development of man; That to promote harmony in diversity is a responsible task of religion and statesmanship; That since no individual can express the whole truth, it is essential to treat with understanding and good will those whose views differ from our own; That by the testimony of history intolerance is the door to violence, brutality and dictatorship; and That the realization of human interdependence and solidarity is the best guard of civilization.