Quotes About Tolerance

May we all be judged on the content of our character and not the color of our skin, and may children of every color and creed freely play together while their parents similarly form bonds of love and friendship---Jeff Parker

We are liberal and tolerant because we are prosperous.

People who have strong likes and dislikes find life very difficult; they are as rigid as if they had only one bone.

The way to come to tolerate and then enjoy being involved in the world is by being in the world.

I thought, If only the whole nation of Israel—and the whole world—could understand that Jews and Palestinians can get along when they begin to treat each other with dignity.

I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it…

Peace is our gift to each other.

True enemies aren't always the ones who hate each other.

Someone who hates one group will end up hating everyone - and, ultimately, hating himself or herself.

hatred is never an answer, and ... death nullifies all answers. There is nothing sacred, nothing uplifting, in hatred or in death.

There is nothing sacred, nothing uplifting, in hatred or in death. In

Let not him who accepts light in an instant despise him who gropes months in shadows.

There is no qualitative or quantitative measurement for pain. It is simply there--sharp or dull, shooting or stabbing, bearable or excruciating, local or general, it is unexplained, uninvited, unavoidable. It takes command. It is all-encompassing, implacable, exigent.

de todo el mundo. Para asegurarme de que nunca rechazaran

How is it that we dare to honk at others in traffic, when we know nothing about where they have just come from or what they are on their way to?

It's funny how, oftentimes, the people you love the most are given the least margin for error.

Patience is not only a virtue; it is a form of grace

If one is going to praise children's honesty when their words please, one must tolerate it when the words do not.

how accepting children can be—must be.

There is only so much discordance to which anyone can listen before the notes become unbearable and they tune it out.

I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument about God. My idea is, you listen to everything this man say about God. Never argue about God with him. Best thing to say is, 'I agree with you.' Then you go home, pray what you want. This is my idea for people to have peace about religion.

In 1954, Pope Pius XI, of all people, sent some Vatican delegates on a trip to Libya with these written instructions: Do NOT think that you are going among Infidels. Muslims attain salvation, too. The ways of Providence are infinite.

There is a hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves.

Even if you are eighty years old, or a lesbian, or a strident feminist, or a nun, or an eighty-year-old strident feminist lesbian nun who has never been married and never intends to get married, the politest possible answer is still:Not yet.