Quotes About Tolerance

At least my situation I can be like, look, I avoid physical confrontations, obviously not because I have an issue with physical violence, but I try to see the bigger picture of what it takes for humans to coincide with each other. We're all the same race.

I don't have a problem with other people having different faith; my problem is if we confuse respecting that with surrendering our own faith.

When you connect to someone on a human level, and you get to know about them, you can begin to love the things that make them different. That's when fear dissipates, and that's when we can live the life that we're all supposed to be living.

Condemnatory conservatism isn't anything I'm interested in.

I would rather sit down with a Hollywood liberal any day than simply surround myself with fellow conservatives.

I'm very curious. I feel more comfortable surrounded by people not like me.

I had a multicultural exposure; that's why I don't believe in a particular religion. I have respect for most because I grew up surrounded by so many. I don't judge people by that, and I feel extremely offended when people categorise based on race, religion, or gender.

When Muslims live and grow up in a separate neighborhood in London, they are surrounded only by their culture. They don't need to integrate with other cultures, they don't need to mix with other people... When we don't live together, we start hating each other.

I feel anxious for my children because tomorrow, if a mob surrounds them and asks, 'Are you a Hindu or a Muslim?' they will have no answer.

The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.

I love Somali foods like canjeero, a pancakelike bread; same for pizza, burgers, and sushi.

I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say.

I used to listen to so many song bands that were all straight people, and my thinking on it was, 'Well, if I can kind of suspend my own perception of myself and listen to Rivers Cuomo singing about girls, then I don't see why a straight guy can't listen to a band called PWR BTTM.'

Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion.

After September 11, 2001, I was feeling like I really wanted more understanding between cultures. It seemed to me that so much of what happened on September 11 was because people didn't understand each other and were suspicious of each other.

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.

If somebody in the crowd spits at you, you've got to swallow it.

People know there is a difference between what you do and what you accept. There is a difference between me knowing that people swear, me hearing people swear and me swearing, and everyone accepting that this is something you can do as much as you like.

I'm not OK with clergy, students, and those of different opinions chanting and swearing, but it is their constitutional right.

I don't really sweat the small stuff at all and I just feel like I'm more patient. It's probably just a combination of age and being through a bunch of stuff in my life.

Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I never got a scratch on me, never got dirty. And Vig would come out with blood and sweat all over him. And he'd say to me, 'Oh, go manicure your nails.'

I swing both ways. I can see things from a kind of conservative point of view and from a more socially liberal or left-wing point of view.

We simply believe that we should lean into the world with something other than the pointed edge of a sword.