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Quotes About Tolerance

History is not hatred.
~ Malcolm X
The more one reads poetry, the less tolerant one becomes of any sort of verbosity, be that in political or philosophical discourse, be that in history, social studies or the art of fiction.
~ Joseph Brodsky
The show doesn't drive home a lesson, but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.
~ Redd Foxx
When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Political corruption is to Rhode Islanders as smog is to people who live in Los Angeles: nobody complains of its absence, but when it rolls around everyone feels right at home.
~ Philip Gourevitch
As state and local laws mutate and change in favor of greater tolerance, perhaps cannabis will find it's proper place in the home medicine chest.
~ Chris Kilham
India is a country in which every great religion finds a home.
~ Annie Besant
Home is a place where we all do as we please - usually regardless of the others.
~ Myrtle Reed
The whole of India was the home of every Indian who considered himself as one and behaved as such, no matter to what faith he belonged.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
We're [New York] the world's second home, the place where every religion is practiced and every culture is celebrated.
~ Michael Bloomberg
Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves, until we end hatred and division.
~ John Lewis
Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.
~ Bill W.
It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.
~ Russell Lynes
Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
We do not compromise our own faith by admitting the honesty of another's doubt.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Refraining from harm, not out of fear, but out of concern for others, their well-being and out of respect is non-violence.
~ Dalai Lama
You teacher, teach your pupils freedom in thought and deed, honesty in thought and deed, and tolerance in thought and deed.
~ Ameen Rihani
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
We wish that all countries around the world honor our wishes and our Jihad, and we avoid interfering in their business.
~ Ahmed Yassin
The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Many Muslims honor people of other faiths and do not kill.
~ Paul Weyrich
Until we learn to honor and respect what other people believe, I think we are doomed.
~ Patricia Polacco
As far as you can avoid it, do not give grief to anyone. Never inflict your rage on another. If you hope for eternal rest, feel the pain yourself; but don't hurt others.
~ Omar Khayyam
I put up with this church, in the hope that one day it will become better, just as it is constrained to put up with me in the hope that I will become better.
~ Desiderius Erasmus