Quotes About Tolerance

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

Srinagar, there was a grave of a Christian soldier from Travancore, which had the Vedic swastika and a verse from the Quran inscribed on it. There could be 'no more poignant and touching symbolof the essential oneness and unity of India'.61

Rabindranath Tagore used the phrase in a letter to a friend in 1921, writing that '…the idea of India is against the intense consciousness of the separateness of one's own people from others, which inevitably leads to ceaseless conflicts.

If a person overlooks the faults of others, and sees only their merits, and thus keeps his mind serene, his whole life will be happy. To be unconcerned in all things, with the mind cool, free of desires and without hate, is beautiful in a seeker.

I don't care much for this homogenised religion, and I told him so. This notion that you mustn't think your way to faith is obviously not far from the intolerance that leads to burning books.

I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.

For the varieties of bigotry spring from a common root. To tolerate one form, either wittingly or not, is to accept all the rest.

A slur against any group by a member of another can never go unremarked if our society is to have any long-term future.

Find the best in everybody. Just keep waiting no matter how long it takes. No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side, just keep waiting, it will come out.

Look for the best in everybody

Find the best in everybody... you might have to wait a long time, sometimes years, but people will show you their good side. Just keep waiting no matter how long it takes. No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side, just keep waiting, it will come out. (p. 22)

Prejudice makes prisoners of both the hated and the hater.

Don't offend the gays and don't inflame the homophobes. These were the twin horns on which the handling of this epidemic would be torn from the first day of the epidemic. Inspired by the best intentions, such arguments paved the road toward the destination good intentions inevitably lead.

Humans who have been subjected to a lifetime of irrational bigotry on the part of a mainstream society can be excused for harboring unreasonable fears.

Then I'm okay with it, Leslie. It's part of who you are and therefore part of the person I love.

WEIRDNESS IS ONLY WEIRD IF YOU FIGHT IT.

The triumph of humanity is to recognise diversity and difference yet having the ability to bring people together and create bridges between them.

Hatred is self and other destructive

Israelis and Palestinians need to create spaces of living together to replace places where they die together.

listen!! my real wish is for people of all races, ethnicities, class and creeds, to show humanity, love and respect for each other. this was the same things bob marley, peter tosh, and all our trench town people wished for, but never see materializing. I did say- man is a communal animal. if he loses this communality then he will perish and become extinct my reggae aims to keep that wish alive. but still I hope..

Harmony is dependent upon a recognition of difference and a willingness to hold one's own truth intact in its presence.

Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or a composition but it is very sad that in our country we actually fight over such things in an unseemly manner.

You cannot figure out crazy. Just keep smiling and nodding.

If you smell baby diapers in a wine that smells like strawberries to me, that's OK. The winery isn't putting either in the wine.