Quotes About Tolerance

All men have their frailties; and whoever looks for a friend without imperfections, will never find what he seeks.

An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.

Let no man think we can deny civil liberty to others and retain it for ourselves.

All religions must be tolerated ... every man must go to heaven in his own way. [Die Religionen müssen alle toleriert werden ... denn hier muss ein jeder nach seiner Fasson selig werden.]

A good man complains of no one; he does not look to faults.

White men seem to have difficulty in realizing that people who live differently from themselves still might be traveling the upward and progressive road of life.

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.

The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.

To remain neutral in a situation where the laws of the land virtually criticized God for having created men of color was the sort of thing I could not, as a Christian, tolerate.

If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.

Imperfect men have no right to judge other imperfect men.

In free countries, every man is entitled to express his opinions and every other man is entitled not to listen.

The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.

Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.

Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and selfishness that have chilled his faith.

Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind.

Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Though they may gang a kennin' wrang, To step aside is human.

Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.

Lend your light to the blind. Why should the wickedness of men irritate you, when it is only blindness?

liberty is the one thing no man can have unless he grants it to others.

Think as I think," said a man, "or you are abominably wicked; you are a toad." And after I thought of it, I said, "I will, then, be a toad.

There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.

You can hate a man for many reasons. Color is not one of them.

Many words befall men, mean and noble alike; do not be astonished by them, nor allow yourself to be constrained.