Quotes about Tolerance
Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
- Phillips Brooks
To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it, of a great mind.
- John Tillotson
If one by one we counted people outFor the least sin, it wouldn't take us longTo get so we had no one left to live with.For to be social is to be forgiving.
- Robert Frost
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.
- Frederick Douglass
In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity.
- Philipp Melanchthon
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs
- Barack Obama
We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
- Thomas Jefferson
Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.
- Mahatma Gandhi
America is a country founded on religious freedom and liberty.
- Hillary Clinton
I have ever regarded the freedom of religious opinions and worship as equally belonging to every sect.
- James Madison
The principle of tolerance and respect for freedom promoted by the reforms of the Second Vatican Council are today being manipulated and erroneously taken too far.
- Pope Benedict XVI