Quotes about Tolerance

You just try to be nice to everybody and treat them all the same. Treat them how you would want to be treated.

I'm the one guy who says don't force the stupid people to be quiet - I want to know who the morons are.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him.

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.

As a people, I am afraid, we tend too often to brush aside with impatience, sometimes with discourtesy, customs and points of view which are alien to us.

The danger lies in the possibility that we will not accept the person as he is but try to make him over according to our own ideas.

The separation of church and state is extremely important to any of us who hold to the original traditions of our nation. To change these traditions by changing our traditional attitude toward public education would be harmful, I think, to our whole attitude of tolerance in the religious area.

There is divine beauty in learning, just as there is human beauty in tolerance. To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you.

When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly.112 They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own—not of the same blood or birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me.

I was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush on the Muslim girls from one neighborhood over.

Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.