Quotes About Tolerance

We can have our beliefs and still read and discuss things.

Discrimination is a disease.

I think all of us have enemies in disguise, but there is nothing much you can do about that. You have to live with it. I just do my own thing and let the enemies be.

I don't want the world to dislike me in any way.

Honestly, racism is something learned, not something that you just pick up one day and wish to dislike someone.

I don't hate anybody. I dislike people's politics.

I feel it's a lot easier to hate or dislike someone that you see as different. It is a lot harder to hate them when you see they are just the exact same as you.

With time, I've learnt that personal likes or dislikes don't count a lot.

We can't disrespect people for having a different opinion.

I don't think that in humor and jokes, in whatever way they are done, there is any kind of disrespect.

You have to distance yourself from hate, period.

But I don't distinguish between being laughed with, and laughed at. I'll take either.

Once you understand that someone has Tourette and that they can't help their tics, it takes away the distraction. And you can engage your compassion. You feel for them. You embrace them.

What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance.

It's a bit disturbing to me that people have to evolve to the idea that people are equal.

Schools should be diverse if we are to get past racial differences.

It's a beautiful thing to live in a diverse area.

I think the world is always going to be as diverse as it always has been.

We have a lot of work we need to do to make sure all of our children have a better understanding of this diverse and wonderful and beautiful world.

Diversity is really a richness for mankind.

It is not enough to pay lip service to diversity.

Every culture is very important. Dartmouth has always been dedicated to diversity of culture.

In a post-9/11 world, diversity has become even more important.

It is our responsibility to find God in someone who is different from us. I think that God basically says, 'I created diversity on purpose, and it is your responsibility to figure out how to make it work.'