Quotes About Tolerance

That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?

Staying together is a challenge. We all have to accept qualities in other people that aren't always exactly what we want or need.

It is amazing the quality of human beings that are in this world if we can just get past people not dressing the way we want them to dress.

Wearing a dress shows I can be as feminine as I want. I'm a heterosexual...big deal, but if I was a homosexual, it wouldn't matter, either.

Everyone has the right to love and worship whoever and whatever they want to. It's nobody's business but theirs. We are not the ones to judge that.

I think everybody is entitled to say whatever they want. I'm not going to call for anybody to be fired. That's not what America is all about.

We can believe as we want, but we should not force our beliefs on others.

Some people want tolerance to mean now that all ideas are equally valid. That's nonsense. There are some things that are right and there are some things that are wrong.

We need more people who love humanity and the world, people who want to understand each other.

I'm so sick of immaturity, of name-calling, of labels, of gossip, of high school. It doesn't make sense anymore, and I find myself being nice to people that I want to strangle.

If someone wants to make a joke about me smoking too much pot, I'm not going to get mad at them, because I've put it out there that that's what I do.

The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.

DO I BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE ARE BASICALLY GOOD? Yes, I do believe that, and I trust Buddhists and Hindus and Moslems to seek the good and to want to live in peace.

I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself.

Accept your friends for who they are, not for who you want them to be.

I have 8-year-old twins, and I want them to grow up in a world where they can be anyone they want without any shame, without holding back, without being judged for it.

Moderates want their faith respected. They don't want faith itself criticized, and yet faith itself is what is bringing us all this - this lunacy.

I don't support hate speech. I don't want to support a racist football team or bands that are offensive.

When you see someone as a human being, you begin to understand most people are doing what they believe is right. I ask myself, "What if you were wrong? How would you want someone to engage with you?"

I have dated all races and I believe you should be free to do whatever you want.

And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.

Nobody wants anything bad to happen; the other side isn't evil.

Everybody's entitled to think whatever they want and to express that, but my personal day-to-day experience does not come into contact with any of those people.

How about the more than 1 billion Muslim people in the U.S, who aren't fanatical, who don't punch women, who just want to go to school, have some sandwiches, and pray five times a day?