Quotes About Tolerance

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.

Because my mum and dad brought me up to believe that people are different but equal. And that I should treat everyone, no matter who, with the same respect I'd like to be shown.

Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.

What was it about the differences in others that scared some people so much?

blankers!' I winced at the venom in Dad's voice. And I'd never heard him refer to noughts as blankers before. Blankers … What a horrible word! A nasty word. My friend Callum wasn't a blanker. He wasn't …

Being in and being accepted are two different things.

There's more to life than just us noughts and you Crosses.

It seemed to me we'd practised segregation for centuries now and that hadn't worked either. What would satisfy all the noughts and the Crosses who felt the same as Mum? Separate countries? Separate planets? How far away was far enough? What was it about the differences in others that scared some people so much?

If you'd slapped me or punched me or even stabbed me, sooner or later it would have stopped hurting.

the difference between the tolerant and the extremist was not so great. "Looking into the Other, we can always find something of ourselves within.

See those people holding hands?" he asked at the candlelight vigil outside the still-smoking Taj Hotel. "They're neither Hindus nor Muslims, but citizens of Bombay first.

Muslims and Hindus and Sikhs were not separate nations - they were Panjabis who had lived for years on the land, enjoying each other's festivities or ignoring them, but co-existing nonetheless.

Treat no one with disdain; with patience bear Reviling language; with an angry man Be never angry; blessings give for curses.*

Hopefully we can come together without tragedy making us do this. Because ultimately underneath it all, at the risk of sounding cliché, we have so much more in common than we do different. When someone loves someone we should celebrate that and be happy for the people in love. That's the goal. We're all here because we want to be loved and love someone else. - Marc Andreyko

charity consists in bearing with the faults of others, in not being surprised at their weakness, [15] in being edified by the smallest acts of virtue we see them practice.

L'injustice et le mal se propagent dès que les gens de bien renoncent. La vraie laideur consiste à faire semblant, et à tolérer l'ignoble.

Friends don't judge friends. They just gradually learn to understand them better.

One has to forgive. Not everybody was at fault. Think of Yaya and her family, who saved us. They taught me tolerance. I think one person's courage can defeat the complacency of a thousand others.

Love is what we call the situation which occurs when two people who are sexually comptatible discover that they can also tolerate one another in various other circumstances.

If you don't like something it's okay to shut the fuck up about it and find something you do like.

People are not always very tolerant of the tears which they themselves have provoked.

The best vaccine against anger is to watch others in its throes.