Quotes About Tolerance

From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.

Sinatra was bothered with issues of anti-Semitism and racism all his life. The song and film he made 'The House I Live In,' was a deep message against prejudice and he was very proud to have recorded the song.

We have to protect the rights of every person and group to follow their sincere religious belief peacefully without hurting other people.

If I could believe that this was said sincerely, I could put up with anything.

Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in a satirical way, but in a sincere, compassionate way - I don't think that's exploitive.

I don't think anyone who genuinely embraced sincerity, charity and modesty could be intolerant or divisive.

I have simply said that there's just a side of me that could not judge anybody singing. It's not who I am. I don't want to be that person.

Here's what I've learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

In my opinion, there is one singular problem with religions in general: they are exclusive. To me, this exclusivity is not right.

In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate anyone who calls it a sin or him a sinner.

Look, I don't hate homosexuals. I've always said that I love the sinner but I hate the sin.

People have always had difficulty saying my name or were resistant to calling me 'Sir' even though my name starts with 'Ser.' Growing up, my family always called me Darius. They're the only ones that are allowed to. All my close friends call me 'Ser' or 'D' and on sets most people call me 'Ser'D.' I'm cool with that.

I heard we'll get you a pass because we know you're married to a black woman. You're married to a sister so we'll give you that pass but also, those who know me but also if they look at the body of work, it is the bigger picture.

Dear sisters and brothers, I am not against anyone.

At the end of the day, we're all brothers and sisters in God. What people do is none of my business.

One thing that has helped me to become patient and cool is that I grew up with sisters.

Gay sisters don't think too bad of transvestites. Gay brothers do.

We can have open and good discussion with our Republican brothers and sisters. But when we walk into the chapel we should leave our political differences out in the parking lot.

What I'm trying to do is fulfill what my father said, which is, 'We have to find a way to live together as brothers and sisters, or together we're going to perish as fools.'

I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.

I'm not gonna sit back and listen to somebody who listens to 3LW all day.

There was a time when someone would get on a plane and request to move their seat just because the person sitting next to them was of a different ethnicity or religion or nationality. But I don't think my generation wants that. That's how it used to be.

If we were all sitting around as different races and as different religions, if you were a real friend of these people, you would bust on them all.

I try to support groups that are about educating people about different races, different religions, different cultures and different situations so that we can break down the barriers of prejudice and bigotry.