Quotes About Tolerance

Like my father Bal Thackeray, those Muslims who consider India their motherland, respect the laws of this country, don't ignite riots and live amicably, we have nothing against them - as far as the others, they have no right to live in India.

American policymaking in the Islamic world must begin with a foundation of respect for Muslims, especially when they tell us about their faith.

We don't hate Muslims, but they have to integrate.

If I don't like a person and a person doesn't like me fine, that's mutual respect.

If democracy is to be an articulation of mutual respect, a leader in a democracy leads by showing respect to all.

In the 21st century, I think it's fair to say, homosexuality is more accepted in Britain and it's wonderful that my generation has been able to grow up with that.

A lot of people think that I am trans but I'm not trans. I am a gay male with hair and nails. So if you say 'he' or 'she' it doesn't matter. I know who I am.

When we're talking about people not wearing clothes or being naked or whatever, that's a whole lot of people. And I said this: if that's their thing, and they feel comfortable doing that, then whatever; that works for them, but you don't have to go that route if you don't want to. We don't want people to think that that's what you have to do.

I'm OK with people being naked. There shouldn't be a huge deal made about it.

I don't even correct people when they mispronounce my name now.

I do believe in the idea of a historic person named Jesus that was a kind of chill dude who was just telling people to chill and be nice to each other. And he got penalized for that.

I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names.

I feel for people with crazy names. It's been a challenge, but if that's my struggle, I can live with it.

It's good for people not to have a narrow mind. Good music is good music.

I see interracial couples all the time in Nashville. I'm a Jew in Nashville. I'm a gay person in Nashville. It's a non-issue in most of the time. That's a huge leap forward.

No nation is immune to anti-Semitism and xenophobia.

Independence did not mean chauvinism and narrow nationalism.

Let's be cautious about narrow nationalism.

We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.

Kids are naturally curious about what they don't know, or don't understand, or what is foreign to them. They only learn to be frightened of those differences when an adult influences them to behave that way and censors that natural curiosity.

Spinoza - la fonction de l'État est de garantir aux individus la liberté de leurs cultes et de leurs croyances sans en privilégier aucun ni aucune parmi eux.

We do not 'suffer,'" said Garad. "We endure.

Apparently, I was going to have to get used to the idea of being stared at and inspected. People were going to be interested and inquisitive, I decided, and I would just have to accept it as logical, if I was going to function in the world at all.

Almost everybody I met had a Christine Jorgensen joke.