Quotes About Tolerance

My mother always taught me to think about things from other people's perspectives and think about where they're coming from.

When you can listen to others' perspectives, we can learn about the other people that make up this great country.

Seek out different perspectives.

The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.

Because of the Internet, you're sort of forced to deal with people from very different backgrounds and beliefs. It's a great challenge of our time, and depending on when you ask me, I feel optimistic or pessimistic about it.

My pet peeve is when people criticize things when they're just trying to have a conversation.

Peeves do not make very good pets.

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

I never said finish the Congress, because the opposition is needed... I do not have such petty imaginations.

Seeing people decide to choose love instead of hate is phenomenal.

What I do know from my life is the phenomenon of saying, 'This is too small a thing to argue about', but then nevertheless finding oneself in that argument.

Islamophobia is a complex phenomenon.

I don't really like Phil Robertson and I think his opinion about gay marriage is stupid. But in a country where we want an honest conversation, we have to realize that part of the honest conversation is hearing things we don't like and discussing them.

Homophobia is just that: a phobia.

Don't attack a girl because you see one photo of her and a guy in public.

Like a physical body, a body politic must have an immune system that resists anti-Semitism and other forums of hatred.

As a physician, I would never encroach upon the religious freedoms of my patients.

We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

Obviously I'm not there to pick up anybody, but I'm not afraid to hang out in a predominantly gay establishment.

You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.

There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.

For Muslims, as a homosexual, I am less than a pig.

We have to be sure we don't pigeonhole one group as though they're not part of the human family, as though there's a different set of rules for them. That would be a big mistake.

An imam should be able to say that homosexuals are worse than pigs. My only demand is that you mustn't incite violence.