Quotes About Tolerance

Racism exists, but it is far less rampant than ignorance, and ignorance can be cured through experience.

Maintenance of good relations with the neighbours, friendship to all, malice to none is the policy I pursue throughout my life.

I'm just hoping throughout my career I can help eliminate what people can and can't be because of where they're from or what they look like or their religion or ethnicity.

I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.

I'd had a racist experience as a child at age 10, where people had thrown rocks at me and bottles. I didn't understand. And all it was, was because of the color of my skin, nothing I had done, nothing I had said.

If I were a child of Tibet or of Arabia, I suspect the path I'd walk would be the Buddhist path or the Muslim path. And I don't mind saying that I don't invalidate any of those paths.

I missed a connecting flight once and the girlfriend I was with started to cry. And I was like 'Look, just chill. We've got an open ticket. This really isn't a big deal.'

Some ticket buyers think they don't like Jews.

In a pluralistic society like ours, I think the ability to resist hate comes from cultivating a civil society that, on the one hand, nurtures the freedom of each group to pursue their faith and distinctive way of life, while, at the same time, fostering the ties that bind us together into a genuine broader community.

I believe in literature which ties people together, that highlights what people have in common, despite the differences - color, sexual orientation, or anything which may separate us on the surface.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Hear the other side.

Hear the other side. (Audi Partem Alteram)

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

It is dangerous to make everybody go forward by the same road: and worse to measure others by oneself.

What can't be cured must be endured.

It seems to me patently obvious that we can no more respect and tolerate vast differences in notions of human well-being than we can respect or tolerate vast differences in the notions about how disease spreads, or in the safety standards of buildings and airplanes.

One of the quickest ways to make friends mad is to tell them what they should or shouldn't have done.

You're about to learn thirty ways to fast-forward through frustration, turn impatience into empathy, handle hassles with appropriate humor, think on your feet, keep your cool under fire, and continue to care-even if other people don't.

F. Scott Fitzgerald famously described the importance of being able "to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time," while still retaining "the ability to function." I was quickly becoming practiced at this discomfiting balance.

I saw how important it is not to shun those with whom we disagree. As the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr once said, 'We must always seek the truth in our opponent's error and the error in our own truth.' This is just as important in our domestic politics as in our foreign dealings.

Throughout the years, the nation of Canada, as we are aware, became a land of immigration, a home to millions of people from different lands, ethnicities, cultures and religious beliefs. Every new comer that has settled in Canada in the last few hundred years and those who will settle in the future share one common name: "immigrants."

We each have our own beliefs. What is important is not to piush your beliefs onto others.