Alexander Wang Quotes

Children tease each other because you're short or you're tall or you're a redhead or because you're ugly or because you're smart or because you're dumb or all kinds of differences and as parents we have to deal with that and strengthen our children to be comfortable with themselves and also to show empathy and acceptance towards others.

I don't want to make fun of somebody because of the way they look, where they're from, or their religion.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

And when I go around and talk to schools, what I tell the kids are, first of all, you have to accept each other's differences. Some of you are going to be a crappy football player, some of you are going to be a great mathematician. Whatever it is, accept each other's differences and help prop each other up.

We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.

We need to be able to go to school and feel safe and accepted for who we are.

When all of us are acknowledged as the human equals that we really are, there will be no space left for bullying. It will no longer be wrong to choose one thing over another.

You may be less likely to pick on someone if you don't know what's in their briefcase or purse.

Making sure that when my child went to school people were enlightened enough not to torture them, you know?

If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.

You shouldn't make fun of people who have issues.

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.

It's not nice to make fun of people with issues.

I find 'Edward Scissorhands' a very inspiring movie - it's one of the first movies about bullying, in a way - about being treated unkindly for being different.

Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity.

Our goal should be to understand our differences.

To help keep diversity a wellspring of strength and make America a better place for all, I pledge to have respect for people whose abilities, beliefs, culture, race, sexual identity or other characteristics are different from my own.

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.

My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.

Mama showed me that I didn't have to change just because someone else saw things differently. She showed me that having differences is normal and that I didn't have to be afraid of the differences in all of us.

To feel like someone is excluded is something I'm very sensitive about. I'd never want any human being to feel that they are not welcome because of a certain thing, whether it's religion, sexual orientation, their sex or their skin colour.

I don't really have any interest in allowing other people's kind of idiotic, unnecessary, either bigotry or hatred or whatever derision they have for me, I don't allow for it to really bother me, because I don't need it.

I would never make fun of anyone who is obviously disabled who cannot defend himself, like Donald Trump.

Nobody - regardless of how they feel or behave - deserves to be on the other end of receiving hatred and discrimination.