Quotes About Tolerance

I love the story of Quasimodo, about someone who feels like they don't belong but is pure of heart and has good intentions. It's a great message for a younger audience.

It's impossible to be ethnically pure.

I could care less if someone is purple polka-dotted.

We should want children to value difference. Preparing them for a more just world doesn't mean teaching them to aspire to purple. It means helping them learn to celebrate black.

You may be less likely to pick on someone if you don't know what's in their briefcase or purse.

You don't need to push your beliefs onto other people!

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I'm not here to preach hate or push people down.

The Good Humor man can only be pushed so far.

My goal is to share information and to educate. But am I an activist? No, no, no. I don't believe in pushing things on people.

You should be appeasing people as much as possible, not stigmatising them. The ban of the burkini puts into question people's individual freedoms.

I have learnt one thing in life: if you love being with someone, you have to accept that person with all the flaws.

I never had hate for anyone. I helped start ministries in Florida for gay people who wanted a way out.

Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or a composition but it is very sad that in our country we actually fight over such things in an unseemly manner.

Not everybody gets a chance to go fly around the country and spend time in places with people who aren't like them, where, again and again, you realize we're all generally alike.

Faith really should be a bridge, not a wall. Because at the end of the day, we should be focusing on what you believe, not what your religion is.

Personally, I cain't stand classical stuff, but I don't tell the world about it. I just turn the radio off. Now, why cain't these folks who don't like my kind of music do the same?

I don't know how racists live with their racism. We need to take the road of love. I don't think folks are born that way; it's learned and taught out of fear.

Folks, it's okay to find flamboyant homosexuality funny.

I don't hate anyone, especially any college football team.

I've seen racism in my audiences. For example, I've seen people laugh at every other group, but then clam up when it comes to their community. You can't laugh at everyone else and then not laugh at yourself. You shouldn't be at my show if you can't laugh at yourself.

No one in the planet can ever tell anyone else what they should do. For example, I do not go around the world trying to say somebody needs to be democratic.

I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.

I never tried forcing anyone to understand me. Everybody has their own opinion. But I will always be happy the way I am.

You just have to forgive them for being men.