Quotes About Tolerance

I never felt I had anything to hide. I never felt being gay was anything to be ashamed of, so I never felt apologetic. I didn't have issues with it, didn't grow up with any religion, so I didn't have any religious, you know, issues to deal with as far as homosexuality is concerned. So, I accepted it very easily. For me, it wasn't that big a deal.

Reject racial or religious hate. Embrace moderate Islam.

Regardless of your religious belief, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or gender identity, there is no place in our communities for hate.

This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief.

Debating religious beliefs are a red line, a deep red line.

Americans are squeamish about anything that seems to punish people for their religious beliefs.

America was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come here in order to practice their religious beliefs as they please. Our culture has always been, and will most likely always be, profoundly influenced by religion.

Objecting to someone because of his religious beliefs is not the same thing as prejudice based on religious heritage, race, or gender.

Everyone has the right to practice their religious beliefs in private but expect that people might publicly reject said beliefs.

Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.

I am very much opposed to forcing anyone to violate their conscience or their religious beliefs, and of course, I'm very much opposed to discrimination.

I know how it feels to be hated because of my religious beliefs.

In Arkansas, we believe in religious freedom.

Religious freedom is one of the most fundamental of human rights because religious freedom comes from the dignity of the human being as God's creature.

I believe in democracy. I also believe in religious freedom.

America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity - the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

Religious institutions should have religious freedom on this issue. No church or minister should ever have to conduct a marriage that is inconsistent with their religious beliefs. But I think as a civil institution, this issue's time has come and we need to move forward.

At the political level, most Jews and most Catholics have accepted the liberal idea of religious freedom.

President Kennedy's election was such an enlargement. It expanded religious freedom to include the highest office in the land. President Kennedy's administration was such an enlargement. It advanced the day when the bars of intolerance against all minority groups will be lifted, not only for the presidency, but for all aspects of our national life.

Religious freedom sits at the core of who we are as Americans.

Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.

If we really want to cherish religious freedom, people who want to believe that same-sex marriage should take place, they have a right to believe that, and people who want to believe it's inappropriate, we should not demonize those people - if we really believe in religious liberty.

Most people I know are not hard-core religious people. They are what I would call 'lightly religious.' So I don't buy the notion that we can't laugh about religion in America.

Interreligious dialogue is extremely important for religious people as well as secular people or non-believers. They should participate, and they should be encouraged to have interreligious dialogue, because dialogue is a channel or an instrument to promote intimacy between individual.