Quotes About Tolerance

Many of us, both Jews and Christians, want the public square to be pluralistic, which is neither partisan nor naked.

If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.

Many in our increasingly secular culture want to chase Christians out of the public square altogether.

I don't want to bring my kid to a stadium and sit next to somebody who is shouting racist chants, because it's going to make kids think that it's okay to do it. It's not only affecting players, but it is affecting kids that are growing up now, and are going to be bringing their kids in future.

Just by saying it is wrong to be racist and saying we are going to arrest people and kick them out of stadiums does not stop them being racist.

I have a homosexual in my staff, I have a homosexual in my family, I have a lesbian in my family, my lawyer is gay with a husband. So what does that say about me?

I personally couldn't care less who's in the stall next to me as long as I don't have to see what you're doing in there.

I'm always going to say, 'I think there is racism' and I want to stamp it out.

Those who know my stance on Israeli democracy also know that there is nothing more foreign to me than the rejection of a position different to my own.

We try to take a very strong stance against discrimination and hatred.

I will stand up for a girl who is being harassed or bullied for choosing to wear revealing clothes. I will stand up for that!

We must stand up to anti-Semitism at home and abroad.

I want to stand up for what I believe in, and I don't think it's right when people say things or bash people because of their sexual orientation.

I am very conscious that you can't condemn people of an earlier era by the standards of ours.

Since I was a teenager I have been standing up to antisemitism, racism and discrimination in all its forms.

I do not even hate the Talib who shot me. Even if there was a gun in my hand and he stands in front of me, I would not shoot him.

You want to have two guys making out in front of your 4-year-old? It's OK with them. A guy smoking a joint, blowing the smoke into your little kid's face? OK with them. And I'm not exaggerating here. This is exactly what the secular movement stands for.

Nike stands together against bigotry and any form of discrimination... Now, more than ever, let's stand up for our values and remain open and inclusive as a brand and as a company.

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

And part of growin' up is learnin' to see the world through other men's eyes.

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.

I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them.

America needs fewer men obsessed with erecting fences of hate, suspicion and name calling.