Quotes About Tolerance

Just because someone has a different political view or opinion than you doesn't make them a bad person.

You need to have a liberal point of view for a society to grow.

Bullying is so common that it's viewed as almost 'normal,' but it should never be.

Rijetko kad mi se ljudi ne dopadaju zbog osobina koje ne mogu promijeniti. Obi?no daju dovoljno povoda da ih ne zavolim iz posve druk?ijih razloga.

You... you are so...' She couldn't even think of a suitable word. 'I know. Woefully primitive.' Laughter threaded through his voice. 'But I must be tolerated, because I'm a man and I really can't help it.

Heaven forbid that we should spend an evening with people who are not exactly the same as ourselves. We might learn something.

He learned how to love them without changing them. To let them be what they were meant to be.

I had asked Todd once if he was gay, and he had said he didn't care if someone was a man or a woman, he was more interested in the person's inside. "So are you bisexual?" I had asked, and he had laughed at my insistence on a label. "I guess I'm bipossible," he had said, and pressed a warm, careless kiss on my lips.

It would distress the girls if they were to realize how much you dislike me." "I disapprove of you," she replied gravely, walking out to the grand staircase with him. "That's not the same as dislike." "Lady Trenear, I disapprove of me." He grinned at her. "So we have something in common.

My mother used to say, If you stared at him long enough, he was handsome. And my father would continue, But your mother was the only one who had the patience.

It's not so easy to dismiss people you disagree with when you sense God working in their lives too. Later,

Being lesbian isn't a way of life, it's a trivial attribute that doesn't change your character.

Sometimes we must try to view the actions of those around us with forgiveness. We must realize that they are going on the only road they can see. Sometimes we cannot raise our chins and see eye to eye, so we must bow our heads and have faith in one another.

Civil debate is a healthy and democratic process. If one cannot make one's point without yelling, name-calling, or insulting others, one should develop a stronger argument before speaking further.

Maybe there came a point in life where you had to quit categorizing whole groups of people by a few bad experiences.

What we cannot change, we must endure without bitterness.

There remained no place in Charleston for a girl of mixed blood like Sarra, nor would such a place exist within his lifetime. Never would tolerance of her be had in polite society. Not abovestairs, and even the women in his mother's kitchen would not permit her company. Some wealthy man would undoubtedly soon take her to mistress, lured by her exotic beauty, yet ashamed of what she was.

Sometimes we must try to view the actions of those around us with forgiveness. We must realize that they are going on the only road they can see.

Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.

To err on the side of kindness is seldom an error.

A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.

In the matter of prejudice...we are all the same. Goddess and demon, human and monster: none of us understand difference, but at least some of us make the effort to try.

Sometimes, the way around prejudice is education.

I wondered if we could ever truly understand each other, and if not, did it matter? Maybe that was where we had been going wrong all this time, always trying to understand, to make sense, to control, to fit Iran into our own frame of reference, instead of simply accepting?