Quotes About Tolerance

Some have deplored Lincoln's indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.

I have nothing against individuals, I take people as I find them.

I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced.

I appeal to the youth to maintain peace and not indulge in violence.

I think it is inevitable that we make Us/Them distinctions but there's nothing inevitable about who counts as a Them.

Countries we love will inevitably do things we don't like or fail to understand. The same goes for people.

It was incomprehensible to me that someone who had never seen me before, someone who knew absolutely nothing about me, would want to inflict pain upon me for no other reason than the color of my skin.

You can be aware and educated and informed, but you've got to place emphasis on being compassionate, having empathy and understanding.

Our enemy is hatred - the hatred inherent in fundamentalism.

I feel that everyone has a right to be insane.

The English are very indulgent to episodes of alcoholic insanity.

There's a difference between being culturally insensitive - being insensitive towards a culture - and being insensitive.

If the story is insensitive to a person and is not nuanced enough, that's a story I don't want to be a part of. Otherwise there is no other character that I don't want to play.

There's a big difference between being racist and racially insensitive.

If, for 2,000 years, you dress up differently, believe in a different God, celebrate different holidays, and on top of it insist on telling everyone that you're completely different than them, ultimately they'll believe you.

And, for instance, Baptists, Adventists, Lutherans, Pentecostals - let them exist on line with others.

Instead of hate, celebrate.

The Informe should no longer be the scene used to insult, beat, and criticize on the basis of preconfigured conceptions.

It's so hard for me to insult people.

Unless you insult my mother or something, there is not much you could say to me that would really bother me.

Insulting people doesn't make you brave, bold, cool or courageous.

When people direct insults at me, I can take it.

Secularism is intact because of Hindus.

Once my school was integrated, and I was there with white kids and a few black kids, it really didn't matter to us what we looked like.