Quotes About Tolerance

I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family.

As a bandleader, I try to pass on the same family values that I grew up with: help people, hang on to your sense of humour, be tolerant and keep your judgments to yourself.

I come from a very non-accepting family, but I'm very accepting.

I grew up in an agnostic broad-minded family.

Patience with family members and others who are close to us is vital for us to have happy homes.

We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality, we create it to be able to stay. I believe we have always done this, used images to stand and understand what otherwise would be intolerable.

Go forward in your beliefs and teachings, educate the open-minded and be humble to the ones who aren't.

In the Father's house we shall meet Buddhists and Jews, Muslims and Protestants.

My father was never anti-anything in our house.

I think my father felt very strongly that when there was bigotry anywhere, prejudice anywhere, all of us lose out.

My father loved all different types of music. He wasn't a snob. He wasn't a purist.

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand... prejudice, fear and ignorance walk hand-in-hand.

For a non-violent person the whole world is one family. He will thus fear none, nor will others fear him.

There are irrational fears. If you see a woman wearing a hijab and fear is your first thought, something's really wrong.

Ignorance breeds fear. If you don't keep that fear in check, that fear will breed hatred. If you don't keep hatred in check it will breed destruction.

Fear, hatred, and suspicion narrow your mind - compassion opens it.

All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.

Surely Islam has nothing to fear from criticism even if it be unreasonable.

Instead of harboring fear and suspicion we need to think of other people not as 'them' but 'us'.

Imagine a 15-year-old kid saying, 'I have two moms - it's cool.' I don't fear that at all.

Fear and Bigotry are bred fom isolation and ignorance. -Shekinah

I assure my fellow citizens that the vast majority of Muslims experience the same fear they do. ISIS and Al Qaeda are my enemies, too. Most of the people killed by these groups have been Muslim.

Don't let people who live in fear and hate govern how you live.