Halima Aden Quotes

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.

We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions.

I enjoy playing people that are totally different than me.

I think that's important: to know 'the other,' as a means of coming to understanding.

I ultimately want to contribute something toward bettering human relations.

For me, I try to live life every day by getting to know people for who they are and learning from them.

We need to educate our audience. It's so important to have diversity. Let's not fear different voices.

Reading opens your mind and helps you understand and empathize with people who are unlike you and outside your breadth of experience.

I am tolerant. I want to understand other points of view.

I think it doesn't matter, the color of your skin; it doesn't matter where you are from. It matters how you relate to people, how you connect with people, and the open-mindedness with which you approach the subject. That's to me what matters when you are making a film, not who you are or where you are from.

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them. If you allow yourself to be somewhat curious - and if you get into the habit of doing that - it's the first step to being open minded and realizing that your points of view aren't totally opposite.

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.

I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.

I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity.

I could be less impatient with people. I sometimes judge by impressions.

I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand about their life, the more you can sympathize with them or even root for them.

Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization.

I think at an early age I learned not to judge people.

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 love human beings. I believe that there is so much to learn from every person you meet, including a child.

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

One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

I come from a very non-accepting family, but I'm very accepting.