Acceptance.

When you became aware of your friends, your preferences, your sexuality, your desire, when you became aware of who you are, can you honestly say everything you naturally love, hate, or enjoy, are the way they are because you chose them to be? Did you say things like: love the color red, love boys, love girls, hate niggers, hate faggots, hate jews, love god, hate god? Did you consciously   promote hatred and confined preference? No, because our likes, and loves come naturally. The things we enjoy are what they are because of what we make of them. These are not our choices, they are not the choices of others. These are simply who we are and what we become. Though, often we ignore the reality that when we say we hate other races, sexualities, and religions, when we discriminate and hate anything, we are attacking what others are. We are destroying the confidence inside of them, the beauty they contain. We are attacking who they are. They  hurt because they are the ones who understand that it wasn't their choice. They are the ones who suffer helplessly because others let ignorance be excused by their own confined ideas. The cage they hid from themselves in long ago. Let love bring bliss. Let love overpower hate. Let the love and acceptance of who we are rain infinite forgiveness on the ignorance that clouds the sky above. Let love put out the fire that ignorance and intolerance fuels. When they knock on your doorstep, let love be the only thing that is there to answer. They will envy your happiness, they will regret their idiocy. They will change.
-Marc Waterman