Quotes About Tolerance

I grew up in the middle of a block where there was an Irish grocery store on one corner, an Italian bar on another corner and the Nazi Party was on the third corner.

After thirty years of being 'the camel lady,' believe me: One becomes inured to the spotlight.

Multiculturalism is a bed of beautiful roses that has some thorns, so we just have to be careful not to get pricked or to prick one another.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

I am not going to condemn anybody. That's where religion gets a bad name, when people get holier than thou. We are all human. If my children make a mistake, I want them to know it is all right and they should try harder next time.

Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls their party seems to hate President Obama and the Democrats.

I can think that you are mistaken, but I have to be ready to give my life to maintain your right to make mistakes. I have to, though, have the right to say that you're mistaken. This is the principal of the liberal society.

Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.

It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.

One mustn't lose sight of the hard core, which is, do this, do that, love your friends, like your neighbors, be just, be extravagantly generous, be honest, be tolerant, have courage, have compassion, use your wits and your imagination, understand the world you live in and be on terms with it, don't dramatize and dream and escape. Anyhow that seems to be the pattern.

My husband's death changed my nature. I feel it impossible to be silent and tolerant anymore. It is impossible to be always a slave.

Anything that makes it easier to understand, makes it a little easier to bear.

What is surprising, even deeply disturbing, is the way that many individuals who consider themselves democratic, even-handed, rational, and free of prejudice, hold on tenaciously to a standard language ideology which attempts to justify restriction of individuality and rejection of the Other

Kids who exhibit concerning behaviors are compromised in the global skills of flexibility, adaptability, frustration tolerance, emotion regulation, and problem solving. These are skills most of us take for granted. And most kids are blessed with sufficient levels of those skills. Your child was not so fortunate.

Tolerância universal é indiferença. Quem tolera tudo, é porque não se importa com nada'.

It is the curse of humanity that it learns to tolerate even the most horrible situations by habituation.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;!

You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.

Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.

Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged

If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?

I have days when I think to myself, "You know, I'm gonna give everyone a break today." You should try it sometime. Have a "Give Bitches a Break" day.