Lee Pearson Quotes

If I can be an inspiration for someone, that's fine, but just don't look down on me. Don't say, 'Oh, you're in a wheelchair.'

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.

Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.

I tell everyone that works for me not to look down on people. If you're nice to people and take a minute to talk with them, it's good for business whether or not they buy anything. Just because they don't look like they have money doesn't mean they're poor.

My dad taught not only tolerance but appreciation for every human being.

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.

If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

When I have kids, when I have a family and nieces and nephews, I'm gonna teach them to love more and be kinder and to not judge someone by the colour of their skin or any other thing.

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

I try to look for the good in everybody, regardless of the way they're labeled.

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

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

How you treat the quiet, shy types is the most important. If you leave them to sit in a corner, they will be noticed, and it will affect everyone's time. I instantly spring on them and treat them as royalty, showing them around and introducing them to everyone so they seem special.

I think we should all be tolerant of each other and embrace each others' strengths and differences and uniqueness and beauty.

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

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.

Golden Rule: Don’t ignore those lower down on the food chain, they can be your shock absorbers...

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

We must build relationships, get to know one another's children, open our arms rather than close our hearts.

I think the sooner that all of us in society stop accepting any type of bullying or harassment from other people - in spite of people's social standing or net worth or whatever it is - the sooner it will stop.

What I write comes from a place of deep love, and a deep understanding of all kinds of otherness.

I learned tolerance at a very early age.

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

Tolerance says I am just going to stomach your right to be different. That if you disappear from the face of the earth, I am no better or worse off. But love - love knows that every American has worth and value, no matter what their background, race, religion, or sexual orientation.