Bashir Assad Quotes

You can live within the institutions and work hard to change them.

On certain, delicate subjects, bringing in outsiders to talk about values is pertinent because pupils listen to them more attentively.

If I could tell every Trump supporter two things, it would be to travel and read a history book. Look beyond yourselves; look at how petty the morals you uphold seem when you realize we are not the only ones.

You cannot reform your society or institution without opening your mind. So the core issue is how to open the mind, the whole society, and this means everybody in society including everyone. I am not talking about the state or average or common people. I am talking about everybody; because when you close your mind as an official you cannot upgrade and vice versa.

I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day.

It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others.

Diversity ... like anything worth having ... requires effort. Effort to learn about and respect difference, to be compassionate with one another, to cherish our own identity ... and to accept unconditionally the same in all others.

Somebody had to shock the world and let people know how great we could be if we only put our biases aside.

It is the business of culture to make us able to consider with intelligent interest all real opinions, even those we do not and can not accept.

I looked at the world with the humaneness, I think, which is one of the hallmarks of being liberal in my mind.

I think it's important to not just speak to like-minded people.

Diversity is more than just a buzzword to me. It's my life.

I think the world is very closed-minded sometimes and very dated. We need to start opening our minds.

What is political correctness, if not essentially redemptive speech? Soon liberalism had become a cultural identity that offered Americans a way to think of themselves as decent people. To be liberal was to be good.

There is so much art can do to enlighten people, no matter what their views might be. If art can't go there or doesn't elevate the social consciousness in some way, then we are in peril.

I think a liberal arts education isn't necessarily about doing something with your degree; it's about becoming a critical thinker. And I think that critical thinking is so integral to being an actor.

You know, I'm not unwilling to listen to people just because where they're coming from. I'll listen to them, but I'm not going to be beholden to them.

Diversity and inclusion, which are the real grounds for creativity, must remain at the center of what we do.

Just because someone or something thinks differently than you do, it doesn't mean that it's not thinking.

You need to have a liberal point of view for a society to grow.

We have never wrapped ourselves up in our own world thinking we are the only people who know what is doing. We listen to other things and see what we would like and what would suit us.

Let's cultivate an environment, not just in beauty pageants but in society in general, where we argue like we're right but listen like we're wrong.

Diversity is strength. Our cinema and our art forms need to diversify so that it tells all stories, all perspectives.

I'm somewhat wary of being called 'woke' because it feels absolute in a way that I don't think is realistic.

I'm actually not a fan of the word 'woke.' I think the connotation of that means being socially aware, which is a beautiful thing to be. But it does not take into account being self-aware.