Quotes About Tolerance

I don't want to force my politics on my readers.

Though we cannot expect to be able to think like they thought, or read their minds, or penetrate very deeply into so much that is opaque to us in their culture, we can begin to see that there are other ways of thinking besides our own and begin to identify some of the ways in which we have been presumptuously ethnocentric.

Better is to bow than break.

Humanity does not differ in any profound way; there are not essentially different species of human beings. If we could only put ourselves in the shoes of others to see how we would react, then we might become aware of the injustice of discrimination and the tragic inhumanity of every kind of prejudice.

Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us.

The system of those who limit divine inspiration to matters of faith and morals cannot be tolerated.

We have to be tolerant of other people's points of view; we have to be able to disagree without being disagreeable, without claiming that we have a monopoly on the truth.

At a Trump rally, many people were driven to anger and blame; there was name-calling and finger-pointing; there was a certain "my way or the highway" tone. At a Kasich event, people were given hope and all kinds of reasons to lift each other up instead of holding each other down; there was a "we're all in this soup together" tone.

Don't judge a person till you've walked a mile in his shoes.

I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend's shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents.

Now, I appeal to the consciences of those who persecute, wound, torture, and kill other men on the excuse of 'religion', whether they do this in a spirit of friendship and kindness.

Nay, if we may openly speak the truth, and as becomes one man to another, neither Pagan nor Mahometan, nor Jew, ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the commonwealth because of his religion.

Let not men think there is no truth but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read. To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to shew their darkness, but to put out our own eyes.

Além disso, ninguém pode reivindicar, em nome da religião, o privilégio da tolerância, se elimina radicalmente toda a religião mediante o ateísmo.

In a truly free society, people in every field would be free to express their views whether called religious or not, and the marketplace of ideas would be free to sort them out.

Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.

I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves.

There doesn't have to be a right side and a wrong side. Both sides can be right, or both sides can be wrong.

When will we learn that it's not about being color-blind? It's about respect and humanity, pure and simple.' The Good Detective

It's so rare in the world to meet somebody you connect to. Most people are so awful. In the big picture, bad breath just seems relatively manageable.

He believes that if you agree to do something you'd rather not do for someone else's sake, then you should do it graciously, with some enthusiasm, like a good sport.

If any have a stone to throwIt is not I, ever or now.

Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.

When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world.