Quotes About Tolerance

We must reject the politics of meanness and contempt that increasingly dominate our airwaves and Internet.

It is perfectly acceptable in a free and liberal society to criticize, debate, mock, and reject any ideology.

I don't care what religion you are, you cannot say 'I accept certain things but I reject others.' That's not the right behaviour.

Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.

Racial distinctions should not be rejected; they should be embraced.

Any type of anti-Semitism in any form needs to be soundly rejected.

I haven't really had any bad experiences coming out. No one's ever rejected me. There was me, running around in a sarong at the age of 16 - they probably knew.

My values - going back to my childhood - were always based on respect for all people and rejection of bigotry and racism.

I've seen every bad or mean comment related to what I do for a living, and I'm used to it.

We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

Most of the longer-term relationships I've known have been gay relationships. They seem to be able to hang out longer.

I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.

Any ideas of 'other' are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of 'normal.'

I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.

I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.

Genuine cosmopolitanism is a rare thing. It requires comfort with real difference, with forms of life that are truly exotic relative to one's own.

Safe Schools has been labelled a lot of things: Marxism, cultural relativism, 'grooming,' and part of something called the 'rainbow ideology.' But Safe Schools is not about imposing an ideology or an 'ism.' It's about teaching our kids to treat everyone equally, to understand rather than judge.

We're quick to complain about racism, sexism, homophobia, but it's not as bad as people make out. If we're going to be more cohesive, we have to be more relaxed about petty incidents and not find insult where none exists.

I'm pretty relaxed on what people should be able to do as long as they're not hurting anybody else.

The DNA of a true Hindu is liberal. We are, by essence, liberal.

The real Hindu vision is that nobody will be discriminated against or favoured. Everyone is equal.

My husband is as much a proud Muslim as I am a proud Hindu. That's the beauty of our nation - and our marriage, too.

I was born to a Hindu father and Muslim mother on Christmas day. You can't get more secular than that.