Quotes About Tolerance

My mother is a ball of fire in the world, and I love that about her. But what I have learned from my stepdad is something as important, which is patience and compassion. Because when you are living with someone else, those two qualities go a long way.

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.

The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.

I think as queer people, we were very used to accommodating.

My mother went through a phase in her life where she... stopped being queer for religious reasons. I remember, my mother rebuking her sexuality... Queerness was not okay. She basically just said it wasn't okay for her... This is what, in my experience, religion can do to a queer person.

It is possible to be different and still be all right. There can be two - or more - answers to the same question, and all can be right.

People are too quick to criticize and condemn. We've got to be more positive.

Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever.

It's quite clear to me I'm not a sexist and I'm not a misogynist.

Fans insult me and call me 'monkey.' At first, I was quite shocked, but now I do not give it importance.

An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!

We are all human beings, part of the human race, and we need to be compassionate and giving and kind with one another.

America's a melting pot, all races, cultures, religious choices.

If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races.

Do you know what integration really means? It means intermarriage. That's the real point behind it. You can't have it without intermarriage. And that would result in disintegration of both races.

Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.

Home to some of our nation's civil rights leaders, Harvard Law is not a bigoted hub of racism but a place where men and women of all races peacefully co-exist in pursuit of higher education.

Being mean about other people isn't on my radar.

What has bothered and angered radical Muslims is that I'm a non-Muslim writing anything at all about Islam. But this is fiction, and I don't think Islam is above criticism or fictionalization any more so than Judaism, Christianity, Mormonism or Hinduism is.

In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.

People seem to take as much offence as they possibly can these days - it's almost a new type of greed, a new kind of road rage.

I'm so lucky to have been raised the way I have, because my parents believed that everyone had the right to their own feelings, opinions, and existence; as long as they weren't harming others, you had to defend those rights.

I was raised Church of England but I love the Buddhist philosophy, it's very powerful, non-violent.