Quotes About Tolerance

You can reduce the annoyance of someone's stupid belief by increasing your understanding of why they believe it.

See that old person taking forever in line? That is the future you. Have patience.

no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever … nor shall … suffer on account of his religious opinions … but all men shall be free to profess … their opinion in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.

But do you enjoy it?" Annie asked. Raven stared at Annie's reflection in the mirror. "I don't hate it," Raven said. "You spend enough time with anything, that's all you can really ask for.

From that point on, I guess I sort of realized that my imagination, which made life tolerable, needed to be kept a secret from the rest of the world.

even though I actually did not like to be touched, I just let it happen. I allowed it. It was fine.

Did Dolezal really fool those black folks around her? I have a strange feeling she didn't, that many simply humored her. You have to do this with white people, from time to time.

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

But if they asked me 'Abdullah when will you become a true Muslim?' I would reply 'Soon, if that be the will of God— Inshallah.' If anyone asked me whether we were Hindus or Mussalmans, we would reply we were both. Nizamuddin was our umbrella against the burning sun of Muslim bigotry and the downpour of Hindu contempt.

The Muslims had become masters of Hindustan. They were quite willing to let us Hindus live our lives as we wanted to provided we recognized them as our rulers. But the Hindus were full of foolish pride. 'This is our country!' they said. 'We will drive out these cow-killers and destroyers of our temples.' They were especially contemptuous towards Hindus who had embraced Islam and treated them worse than untouchables.

I believe I did succeed in making Indian uslims look upon me as a friend: when I was nominated to be a member of the Rajya Sabha many said, "We have another Muslim in Parliament." Others who disliked my views called me an unpaid agent of Pakistan. I treated both views as compliments.

Masjid ddhaa dey, Mandar ddhaa dey Ddhaa dey jo kuchh ddhenda. Ik kisey da dil na ddhavein Rabb dilaan vicch rehndaa

There is no crime in anyone's blood any more than there is goodness in the blood of others

The need of our times is to revive the Nehruvian notion of secularism.

I believe that the essence of every person's religion should be the endeavour not to hurt another person or living thing and to preserve his environment.

True wisdom listens more, talks less, and can get along with all types of people.

Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance.

...treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't until you do understand.

treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't until you do understand.

The best thing Dr. Folsom taught me (though I didn't realize it at the time) was not how to see nature but how to get along with people who see it differently. It is better to touch a heart than it is to teach a fact.

Some people are just afraid of what's different. It doesn't mean different is bad. It just means different is different.

If you believe that the killing of innocent people is right, then you are not part of my future.

You're always going to have extremists in every religion.

Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith.