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Tolerance,
respect and patience are acquired skills, they are learned attributes, practiced
choices, and until our children begin to study, learn and practice peace, I believe
this is as good as it gets.
-- Debbie Robins |
When
we allow one group of people to look down upon another, then we may for a short
time bring hardship on some particular group of people, but the real hardship
and the real wrong is done to democracy and to our nation as a whole. We are then
breeding people who cannot live under a democratic form of government but must
be controlled by force. We have but to look out into the world to see how easy
it is to become stultified, to accept without protest wrongs done to others, and
to shift the burden of decision and responsibility for any action onto some vague
thing called a government or some individual called a leader.
-- Eleanor
Roosevelt | 
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"If
civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships
- the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world
at peace."
-- Franklin
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Collective
fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who
are not regarded as members of the herd.
-- Bertrand
Russell | |
"Live
and let live."
-- Scottish proverb Tolerance
is the oil which takes the friction out of life.
-- Wilbert E. Scheer
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The
best hope for peace in the world lies in the simple but far-reaching recognition
that we all have many different associations and affiliations, and we need not
see ourselves as being rigidly divided by a single categorization of hardened
groups, which confront each other.
-- Amartya
Sen |  |
The value
of tolerance is central to living in today's world - especially in diverse places
like the Bronx.
-- Jose Serrano
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...if
we are open and we prepare for promoting dialogue and love, and a better understanding
of each other, and tolerance and so forth, that's what the world will become,
a more tolerant, loving place.
-- Russell
Simmons
The
world will become what we envision it to be. And if we are fearful, and we think
we should tense up and prepare for an ongoing battle, then that's what we'll have.
But if we are open and we prepare for promoting dialogue and love, and a better
understanding of each other, and tolerance and so forth, that's what the world
will become, a more tolerant, loving place. So each individual that stands up
is a part of a bigger prayer.
-- Russell
Simmons the
best defense for any group of people is what we do to defend other people.
--
Russell Simmons
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Parents’ accepting
attitudes can help children learn to be open and tolerant. Parents can explain
unfamiliar behavior or physical handicaps and show children that the appropriate
response to differences should be interest rather than revulsion.
-- Dian
G. Smith
The test
of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when
we are in the majority.
-- Ralph W. Sockman
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All
human beings bear God's image and must be respected for what each person is. Therefore,
no external description of one's being, whether based on race, ethnicity, gender
or sexual orientation, can properly be used as the basis for either rejection
or discrimination.
-- Bishop
John Shelby Spong "When
the dust settles and the pages of history are written, it will not be the angry
defenders of intolerance who have made the difference. The reward will go to those
who dared to step outside the safety of their privacy in order to expose and rout
the prevailing prejudices."
-- Bishop
John Shelby Spong | 
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Just
imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect
world is one in which we really appreciated each other's differences: Short, tall;
Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight--a world in which all of us
are equal, but definitely not the same.
-- Barbra
Streisand |
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"Our
expanding ethnic diversity of this century, a time when we will all be minorities,
offers us an invitation to create a larger memory of who we are as Americans and
to re-affirm our founding principle of equality. Let's put aside fears of the
"disuniting of America" and warnings of the "clash of civilizations." As Langston
Hughes sang, "Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe."
-- Ronald Takaki |
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"We
have to sit down, have a meal together, pray together and then actually talk together.
Then we realize that, yes, although we have some differences they are not impassable
differences."
-- Pauline
Tangiora |
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"If
you judge people you have no time to love them."
-- Mother
Teresa |  |
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Every
human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must
each respect others even as we respect ourselves.
~ U
Thant |  |
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We
add our voice ... to those who struggle for the recognition and protection for
their rights and cultures, because to the extent that we respect our differences,
we shall build a life with more justice.
-- Francisco Toledo
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neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
-- Miguel de Unamuno Superstition
is great enemy of man but bigotry is worse.
-- Swami Vivekananda What
is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty
and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law
of nature.
-- Voltaire
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women have presented an alternative proposal to society and to humanity. It is
about the construction of a world where tolerance is a life style; Where daily
social and political divergences and its resolutions would be seen as part of
humanity; Where equality would be possible in all its dimensions; Where knowledge
and access to education and other social possessions would not be the privilege
of a few; A world where violence in all its forms would be past history, where
fear will not overwhelm us and where we shall be able to enjoy the goodness of
existence.”
~ Rafaela
vos Obeso |  |
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I
think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical
way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we
were brought up to.
~Alice
Walker | 
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No
man has a right in America to treat any other man "tolerantly" for tolerance is
the assumption of superiority. Our liberties are equal rights of every citizen.
-- Wendell
Wilkie
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Through the centuries,
the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
-- Emile Zola
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