Quotes About Tolerance

It is very easy to learn intolerance and unlearn tolerance, but difficult to unlearn intolerance

Outside of the har?m, or sacred precinct, in Arabia, it is the duty of the Muslim state, according to the Shar?'ah, to allow the building and maintenance of houses of worship of the "People of the Book," and any order to the contrary is against the tenets of Islamic Law and traditional practice.

If the sweat and blood of all faiths seeped into the same soil, then a synthesis must take root

The true seekers pursued their goal so single-mindedly, they felt no urge to tamper with the faith of others

I know it's very idealistic and utopian, but I believe we need to just let everyone not be judged in terms of religion, groups or nations or region.

Patience comes to those who wait.

It had taught me that people like to divvy up one another with names. Jew. Catholic. German. Pole. But these were the wrong names. They were the wrong dividing lines. Kindness. Cruelty. Love and hate. These were the borders that mattered.

Przemysl taught me long ago not to divide people by their country, their religion, or even their preferences in politics. The city taught me how to put people in their proper places on the map. And I know exactly where to place my nurses.

Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

Harmlessness is the only religion. Jain maxim

The class laughed. I can tell the difference between people making fun of us and people being nice to us.

I have learned to be patient with people. Once again I point to Rose's computer and then to the words me too.

I think we broaden our minds and our experiences if we can learn to embrace things that at one point filled us with revulsion.

we all miss out when we close our minds and borders to global understanding of one another. We all have so much to learn and to share with one another when not in an imaginary conflict, created by artifice and fear.

Friendship isn't all peaches and cream. Its how much you can take someone's bullshit and insults and not be offended by it.

In India we celebrate the commonality of major differences; we are a land of belonging rather than of blood.

Living one way is not a criticism of every other way of living. Is that the threat of the woman without kids? Yet the woman without kids is not saying that no woman should have kids, or that you-woman with a stroller- have made the wrong choice. Her decision about her life is no statement about yours. One person's life is not a political or general statement about how all lives should be. Other lives should be able to exist alongside our own without any threat or judgment at all.

Speak with heart, not anger.

I can't stand people who laugh at other people. They'd get a bigger laugh if they laughed at themselves.

I keep that photo to remind me to be forgiving and to look into people's souls with an open mind. It isn't the initial judgment that matters, Mike. It's the last one that counts.

those who condemn what they do not understand are, surely, little men.

See…I'm the United Nations of the shifter world. Willing to take all comers.

There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.

a person can get used to anything if given enough time