Quotes about Tolerance
We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and earnest believers both at once.
- Phillips Brooks
I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.
- Alice Walker
We do not see into men's hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge.
- CS Lewis
We maintain therefore that in matters of Religion, no man's right is abridged by the institution of Civil Society, and that Religion is wholly exempt from its cognizance.
- James Madison
The final battle against intolerance is to be fought - not in the chambers of any legislature - but in the hearts of men.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
A President is neither prince nor pope, and I don't seek a window on men's souls. In fact, I yearn for a greater tolerance, an easy-goingness about each other's attitudes and way of life.
- George H. W. Bush
It is the duty of men to love even those who injure them.
- Marcus Aurelius
We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom of religious worship and freedom of education.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
- Damian Lewis
Holy Moses, let us live in peace. Let us strive to find a way to make all hatred cease. There's a man over there, what's his colour I don't care, he's my brother, let us live in peace.
- Elton John