Quotes About Tolerance

I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies.

I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.

It is not Christian to go against someone. I am in favour of life.

It's not diversity that is going to destroy us, but fear of diversity.

I think people get fearful of things they don't know or understand.

We don't discount that people's fears are their fears.

I love people. You've gotta keep that love in your heart for your fellow man.

It's very important to me that people accept me as a transgendered female. But it's ridiculous to a lot of people and I understand that.

I don't fight people for fun.

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

I don't like fights. I don't like aggressive people.

Nobody should get fired because of who they are, or who they love.

I firmly believe there are no bad people.

Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.

We were taught in school, and I was taught at home and in church, that blacks and whites were equal and we should not discriminate based on skin color, even if my school was almost entirely white.

I think the real understanding comes when we recognize our humanity in each other. That's not just between blacks and whites. That's between all religions as well.

The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.

I used to think I saw life in blacks or whites, turns out I was more grey. It is extremely liberating to care for people even if they are flawed, you needn't eschew the whole person for a few not so shiny, sparkly parts.

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad.

Treat everyone with the same respect that you want to be treated with. That's going to take a collective group of people to do it. There's not one individual that's going to change it. It's going to take multiple people getting out, learning who each other are and loving each other no matter what their political views or what their background is.

I want to be judged by who I am, not what I am. I mean, I am Johnny Weir. Judge me the way you see me, love me the way you see me, hate me the way you see me.

May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea.