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Quotes about Tolerance

In the goodness of time, all peoples will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Surely the better way is to pursue a generous orthodoxy, seeing disagreements in the context of the greater agreements which bind us together.
- Alister McGrath
We think of faith as a source of comfort and understanding but find our expressions of faith sowing division; we believe ourselves to be a tolerant people even as racial, religious, and cultural tensions roil the landscape. And instead of resolving these tensions or mediating these conflicts, our politics fans them, exploits them,and drives us further apart.
- Barack Obama
Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.
- Barack Obama
it doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or where you love. It doesn't matter whether you're black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, able, disabled, gay or straight!
- Barack Obama
inexhaustible...our capacity to exempt from mercy those who look different or pray to a different God.
- Barack Obama
The idea that our common humanity mattered more than our differences was stitched into my DNA.
- Barack Obama
If people can learn to hate they can learn to love.
- Barack Obama
Making Compassionate Decisions: The Role of Empathy in Decision Making READING TIME: 19 MINUTES "The biggest deficit that we have in our society and in the world right now is an empathy deficit. We are in great need of people being able to stand in somebody else's shoes and see the world through their eyes.
- Barack Obama
We will learn to live together, cooperate with one another, and recognize the dignity of others, or we will perish.
- Barack Obama
You can't just sashay into the jungle aiming to change it all over to the Christian style, without expecting the jungle to change you right back.
- Barbara Kingsolver
There's people I love. But there's so many other kinds of love, too. And people act so hateful to every kind but their own.
- Barbara Kingsolver