Quotes About Tolerance

I'm not really sure what gay propaganda is.

I don't fly the Confederate flag on my property, but I'm not going to try to belittle or embarrass anybody who wants to do that.

I have no enemies and no hatred. None of the police who monitored, arrested, and interrogated me, none of the prosecutors who indicted me, and none of the judges who judged me are my enemies.

But in terms of how people live together, how we minimize the prospects of conflict and maximize the prospects of peace, the place of religion in our society today is essential.

Investment in education and economic prosperity is the best way to cure fanaticism and for establishing a just peace in the Middle East.

My idea of freedom is that we should protect the rights of people to believe what their conscience dictates, but fight equally hard to protect people from having the beliefs of others imposed upon them.

Our right to disagree is precious but fragile. The best way to protect and preserve it is to let the other side speak without demonizing them or destroying their right to be heard. Such civil exchanges are the heart beat of democracy - essential to keeping it alive.

People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.

It is really impressive and makes us proud that in a lot of places in Indonesia, a church is close to a mosque, and even in many places, both Islamic and Christian communities cooperated to build a mosque or church.

We are a multicultural country - always have been, and to our credit, always will be. It is something that we should be very proud of and embrace.

I am proud of the fact that we live in a country where all festivals are celebrated with the same energy.

One must not judge other cultures by the standars of one's one,' said Aunt Hilda

It would be a dull world if we all thought alike.

It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up

Lady Marchmain,10 no I am not on her side; but God is, who suffers fools gladly;

An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.

I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.

You should have risen above it, I said smugly. It's not a slam at you when people are rude -- it's a slam at the people they've met before.

Whenever you feel like criticzing any one, he told me, just remember that all the people in this world haven´t had the advantages that you've had.

Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.

Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope. I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth. And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit.

there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race

To this husband of hers she made the last concession of married life, which is more complete, more irrevocable, than the first—she listened to him. She told herself that the years had brought her tolerance—actually they had slain what measure she had ever possessed of moral courage. She