Jacqueline Woodson Quotes

It is our responsibility to find God in someone who is different from us. I think that God basically says, 'I created diversity on purpose, and it is your responsibility to figure out how to make it work.'

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.

We need not think alike to love alike.

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

I'm hopeful for a world with more love, acceptance, and compassion for others.

We're not called to be a tolerant nation. We're called to be a nation of love.

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.

I want to give something to the world that I feel I missed out on as a child, and I want to help people of all races, ethnicities, and orientations understand that no matter what differences we may think we have, everyone is a human, and everyone deserves to be respected and valued.

We need to do a better job of loving each other beyond race, beyond belief, beyond our difference.

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

We're all people. We all need to just try and find a way to love each other and accept each other and try and make the world a better place.

I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport.

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.

I can assuredly say that it's my life's mission to love all people.

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.

We're all different. That's what makes us special. We have to love each other and get on with each other. It's not up to me to judge anybody.

God calls all of his children to the table. We can disagree and even say a lot of hateful things, but what we can't do in good conscience is leave the table. Or demand that someone else not be at the table.

It is my goal to love everyone. I hate no one. Regardless of their race, religion, their proclivities, the desire of their heart and how they want to live their life and the decisions that they make. I can even respect people's decisions and lifestyle choices just as I hope they have the courtesy to respect my decisions and my choices.

Until we learn to honor and respect what other people believe, I think we are doomed.

Throughout my work is the idea, over and over, that we must all learn to respect one another.

Our goal should be to understand our differences.

I'm not homophobic, I'm not racist. I'm not against any people. All I have for people is love.

What we need in the United States is not division. What we need in the United States is not hatred. What we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness, but love and wisdom and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country whether they be white or they be black.

I love being the mayor of a city that is not defined by the hate filled act of a killer, but is defined by the way we respond: The Love and Compassion and Unity.