Quotes About Tolerance

As for my stand, I think it has become difficult in our country to be a Hindu and a liberal at the same time.

If our Hindu culture forbids beef meat, does the same culture give you the right to abuse me and my family just because I have an opinion that you don't agree with?

One has to inculcate a feeling that if I build a road, then a Hindu or a Muslim or a Parsi or a Christian can walk on that road. We all have equal right to share water, electricity, or road.

I am a proud Hindu, but that doesn't I mean I disrespect others' religion.

We Hindus have a long-recognised tradition of being religious liberals by nature.

One of the greatest attributes most Hindus have is acceptance.

I hate the word 'hippy'. I hate a lot of people, and hippies don't do that!

I'm OK with hitting you, I'm OK with getting hit, I'm OK with cuts, broken leg, broken nose - I've broken my nose five, six times - but I don't need to verbally assault somebody. I don't need to say anything bad about somebody.

I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.

Since the Holocaust, anti-Semitism is no longer respectable. It was in the 1920s and '30s, but the Holocaust obviously changed that.

I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

Honestly, if the worst these people can say about me is that I'm gay, then I think I'll be fine. I can handle it.

When I came here, I was a little bit different and in Finland people didn't really accept me, and then I came here and I saw Honey G doing so well and I thought 'British people are so great, they accept Honey G as she is, so maybe they'll accept me as well.'

Americans honor and respect each other's faith, and we honor those that choose to have no faith.

I hoped people would take me as I am. It doesn't matter where I come from.

I'm hopeful for a world with more love, acceptance, and compassion for others.

Hopefully I don't annoy people too much.

With all of the divisiveness that is going on in the country we live in, so much of it is based around just fear of the other. And anyone who does not look like me, walk like me, talk like me, have sex like me, they're the other and I'm afraid of them. And hopefully we will learn that it's just not scary. There's nothing to be afraid of.

Books by women, people of color, LGBTQ authors, differently abled people, and non-Americans are a great way of broadening horizons and building empathy.

Anti-Semitism is a form of racism, and all forms of racism are horrible.

There is much, of course, in the exclusive claims of Christianity which make it hostile to other faiths.

To reach a mass audience, you have to offer more than just hostility.

My dream is that one day, all people will live without fear, in real peace, with no fighting and no hostility.

I cannot stand for more than half an hour in one place.