Quotes About Tolerance

Leave any bigotry in your quarters. There's no room for it on the bridge. - James T. Kirk, Balance of Terror

Why is patience so important? Because it makes us pay attention.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation.

In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else's path is wrong.

It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think yours is the only path.

We should never judge people without first learning to hear and to respect them.

Seek out those who think differently from you and whom you will never be able to convince that you are right.

Everything is permitted, if everything is accepted.

Why do away with the inequalities? - said the boy. - If we flatten the mountains, the birds will no longer have shelter. If we put an end to the depths of the rivers and seas, all the fish will die. If the chief of the village has the same authority as the madman, no one will know what to do. The world is vast, let it have its differences.

I'm not saying: Seek out people who think the same as you. I'm saying: Seek out those who think differently from you and whom you will never be able to convince that you are right.

Para tener fe en nuestro camino, no es preciso demostrar que el camino del otro es equivocado.

It's one thing to feel you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

Nunca podemos juzgar la vida de los demás, porque cada uno sabe de su propio dolor y de su propia renuncia. Una cosa es suponer que uno está en el camino cierto; otra es suponer que ese camino es el único.

True love is that which manages to avoid unnecessary suffering.

You are right," he had said. "Love is not the word. No one can love his neighbor. Say, rather, 'Know thy neighbor as thyself." That is, comprehend his hardships and understand his position, deal with his faults as gently as with your own. Do not judge him where you do not judge yourself. Madame, this is the meaning of the word love.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored — it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.

When foreigners come into a nation, the best way is to make them no longer foreign. That is to say, let us marry our young together and let there be children. War is costly, love is cheap.

Know thy neighbor as thyself. That is, comprehend his hardships and understand his position, deal with his faults as gently as with your own. Do not judge him where you do not judge yourself...this is the meaning of the word LOVE.

The gift he had been given was sometimes heavy to bear, the ability always to understand why the other person was as he was. Wounded, yes, but never angry, and there were times when he longed to feel fierce personal anger.

Learn the good that you can of the foreign people and reject the unsuitable.

The truth is I cannot hate wholly enough to kill a man. I always know how he feels, too.

What gets to you is the everyday ignorance

You should never have expectations for other people. Just be kind to them.

Booker T. Washington was right when he said, "Let no man pull you so low as to make you hate him.