Quotes About Tolerance

Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.

When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be ashamed of themselves.

I'm terrible with patience.

I have some wonderful friends from the Mideast that are as red, white and blue as anybody you know, that have been harassed, and I think it's a terrible, terrible thing.

I don't disrespect anybody who espouses a particular religion or belief - that is their own right to do that. But I think it's terribly important to look beyond the comfort that religion gives.

If the world's nations can set aside their petty bickering over religion, politics, and territory, certainly I can 'get that Olympic Spirit' and rise above my prejudices.

Does every Muslim commit terror? Of course not.

While the 1963 Birmingham church bombing is the most historic, there also was a series of church burnings in the 1990s. Recognition of the terror those and similar acts impose on communities seems to have been forgotten post-Sept. 11, 2001.

The fight against terrorism is not a confrontation against any religion.

Fanaticism and terrorism have no place in Islam.

The more languages you know, the less likely you are to become a terrorist.

The terrorists whatever slogans they use have nothing in common with Islam.

Of course, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are not terrorists or sympathetic to terrorists. Equating all Muslims with terrorism is stupid and wrong.

To characterize all Muslims as terrorists is fear-mongering of the worst kind.

I am not saying all Muslims are wrong or are terrorists or criminals. You will never hear me say that.

I don't have children. I don't know how I would feel if my child brought home a different race boyfriend or girlfriend. I don't think I would have any issue with it. But I have no litmus test for that.

No matter how tender you care about people, I was discovering, you'll not alter anyone. Best afford them the noblest gift that a man can offer his neighbor. Acceptance.

they were Muslims who had a long history not unlike Christian history—namely, marching into countries where a bunch of folks thought differently than you about life and God and you ground your righteous heel into their throats. I was an infidel. But not inside here. In this house—and on the most threadbare couch in the most desolate, rubble-strewn vacant lot—coffee and tobacco were the common sacraments of the whole human race.

Agreed to differ.

Ne raillons pas les fous; leur folie dure plus longtemps que la nôtre... Voila toute la différence.

I don't have a hostile disposition toward humankind per se. In fact, I feel quite warmly toward humankind. It's individual humans I have trouble with.

Sin embargo, se tolera, y se sonríe y se saluda... porque "así es la vida".

a veces tenía salidas de este tipo, quiero decir que a veces parecía un niño malcriado, pero yo todo se lo perdonaba, todo lo que él hacía me parecía bien.

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things, for they heed not thy vexation.