Quotes About Tolerance

There are gays and lesbians in every country, so there should be no discrimination against them just because of their destiny.

And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn't mean I think that you should.

Love your friends' kids, even if you don't want or like children. Just do it.

Sexuality doesn't need to be defended or justified.

I can't judge Justin Bieber, because I don't know him.

With the Kick It Out campaign, I was interested in asking: 'Why is antisemitism a lesser racism than other racisms?' I genuinely believe that to be the case - that negative stuff said against Jews isn't considered that important.

Kids really don't care about what their friends look like.

I think it would be a far greater world if people were kinder and more respectful to each other.

I feel like I want to be in a world and in a community where we can be kinder to one another, because that is never going to hurt... And that should start with myself.

My only hope is that we can all try and be kinder, always show love and listen to one another.

There is far too much aggression and violence in society and people should be kinder to one another.

'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' I've used it to demonstrate racial attitudes to people who I thought needed a better understanding of all human beings. Malcolm was not a racist. He was not looking for revenge. He realized that kindness and goodness did not come from any one kind of person.

I grew up with all kinds of people.

Jews are an important part of our kingdom, and I am happy you chose to gather here in our country.

West Hollywood blew my mind: gay men walking down the street, kissing and holding hands. I'd never imagined there was a place like that.

I don't ever knock anybody; that's bad manners.

Marriage hasn't been my thing. But gay people, knock yourselves out!

With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.

I've always ignored the labels people put on things.

I am not a labor hater.

Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine qua non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, "what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?" And sometimes we use religion just to back up these unworthy hatreds, because we're frightened too.

A project like Pangea, which enables us to enter in to the situations of others, imaginatively, is fulfilling what the religions call the Golden Rule... going into one's own experience, and going into other's experience, and seeing the world from another perspective that's what we desperately need in our dangerously polarized world.

Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.

Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?