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Tolerance
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The
truth which has made us free will in the end make
us glad also. Every
outcry against the oppression of some people by other
people, or against what is morally hideous is the
affirmation of the principle that a human being as
such is not to be violated. A human being is not to
be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.”
-- Felix
Adler
The
human family is very diverse, with many different
beliefs and cultures and ways of life. Many conflicts
in our world are caused when people are intolerant
of the ways that others see the world. Learning tolerance
is an important cornerstone to creating a better world.
-- Robert
Alan Silverstein
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We
must not only control the weapons that can kill us,
we must bridge the great disparities of wealth and opportunity
among the peoples of the world, the vast majority of
whom live in poverty without hope, opportunity or choices
in life. These conditions are a breeding ground for
division that can cause a desperate people to resort
to nuclear weapons as a last resort. Our only hope lies
in the power of our love, generosity, tolerance and
understanding and our commitment to making the world
a better place for all...
-- Muhammad
Ali
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“We
need to promote greater tolerance and understanding
among the peoples of the world. Nothing can be more
dangerous to our efforts to build peace and development
than a world divided along religious, ethnic or cultural
lines. In each nation, and among all nations, we must
work to promote unity based on our shared humanity.”
– Kofi
Annan
Surely
the day will come when color means nothing more than skin
tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one’s
soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the
dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds
love and brotherhood.
-- Josephine Baker
It is
thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance
that is the source of disorder and squabbling.
-- Pierre Bayle
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Respect
your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree
with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore
your thoughts about one another candidly, work together
for a common goal and help one another achieve it.
No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating
anger.
-– Bill
Bradley
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Be
modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.
-- Lakhdar
Brahimi
In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are
moving towards a global village, but that global village
brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different
ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different
aspirations. I think respect and understanding will
help that village function better than it does today.
-- Lakhdar
Brahimi
"Toleration
is good for all, or it is good for none."
-- Edmund Burke
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How
far you go in life depends on your being tender with
the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic
with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the
strong. Because someday in life you will have been
all of these.
~ George
Washington Carver
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"What's
so funny about peace, love and understanding?"
~ Elvis
Costello
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"In
the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher." -- 14th
Dalai Lama
I think
tolerance is something everybody needs to be reminded of,
especially in a reactionary political world. Well, actually,
I should say, a reactionary political climate.
-- Bruce Davison
The
focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept
of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence
with children that there is more goodness than horror in
this world.
-- Morris Dees
Travel
teaches tolerance.
-- Benjamin Disraeli
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"Human
diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes
it a requirement for survival."
~ René
Dubos
Without
tolerance, our world turns into hell.
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt
Tolerance
can lead to learning something.
-- Jakob Dylan
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"Laws
alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order
that every man present his views without penalty there
must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population."
-- Albert
Einstein
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This
world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of
dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation
of mutual trust and respect.
-- Dwight
D. Eisenhower
"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
The
responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider
vision.
-- George Eliot
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Nuremberg
taught me that creating a world of tolerance and compassion
would be a long and arduous task. And I also learned
that if we did not devote ourselves to developing
effective world law, the same cruel mentality that
made the Holocaust possible might one day destroy
the entire human race."
-- Benjamin
Ferencz, Nuremberg prosecutor
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The
best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to
an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to
your child, a good example; to a father, deference;
to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of
you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.”
-- Benjamin
Franklin
Nonviolence,
therefore, can be described as an honest and diligent
pursuit of truth. It could also mean the search for
the meaning of life or the purpose of life, questions
that have tormented humankind for centuries. The fact
that we have not been able to find satisfactory answers
to these questions does not mean there is no answer.
It only means we have not searched with any degree
of honesty. The search has to be both external and
internal. We seek to ignore this crucial search because
the sacrifices it demands are revolutionary. It means
moving away from greed, selfishness, possessiveness,
and dominance to love, compassion, understanding,
and respect.
-- Arun
Gandhi
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Anger
and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.
-- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
Intolerance
betrays want of faith in one's cause.
--
Mohandas
Gandhi
Intolerance
is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the
growth of a true democratic spirit. -- Mohandas
Gandhi
Once
one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no
knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone
has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred
is violence to the heart.
--
Mohandas
Gandhi
Tolerance
comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could
not have committed at some time or other.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Let
us develop respect for all living things. Let us try
to replace violence and intolerance with understanding
and compassion. And love.
~ Jane
Goodall
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Let
us develop respect for all living things. Let us try
to replace violence and intolerance with understanding
and compassion. And love.
~ Jane
Goodall
tolerance
is our safest refuge and our fortress against the
handicaps that arise from schism, factions, and the
difficulties inherent in reaching mutual agreement
-- M.
Fethullah Gülen
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Tolerance,
a term which we sometimes use in place of the words
respect, mercy, generosity, or forbearance, is the
most essential element of moral systems; it is a very
important source of spiritual discipline and a celestial
virtue of perfected people.
-- M.
Fethullah Gülen
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Freedom
goes hand-in-hand with mutual respect.
--
Xanana
Gusmão
Freedom
means to build a democratic system enshrined with
the respect for fundamental rights of Man, of the
human being, of the individuals.
-- Xanana
Gusmão
"The
only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice
of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect
for opinions that are not ours."
--Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Tolerance
and celebration of individual differences is the fire that
fuels lasting love.
-- Tom Hannah
Intolerance
is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it
permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
-- Sidney J. Harris
The
problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's
own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Respect—not
tolerance—must be our goal if we would diminish prejudice
in our time.
-- Selma G. Hirsch
It
is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective,
ability, and judgment are radically different from yours.
It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance,
and wisdom.
-- Dee Hock
The
remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as
ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We
hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward
others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when
we forgive ourselves.
-- Eric Hoffer
"Toleration
is the best religion."
-- Victor Hugo
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"Let
me say this loud and clear. There is a world of difference
between terrorist acts and the Islamic Shari'a. Islam
is not only a religion, but a way of life. And at its
heart lie the sacred principles of tolerance and dialogue.
-- King
Hussein of Jordan
Any
one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live
by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and
tolerance for one another.
-- Yahya Jammeh
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I
never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine
of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the
religious opinions of others.
-- Thomas
Jefferson
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How
do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds
of people? The key is tolerance -- the one value that
is indispensable in creating community.
-- Barbara
Jordan
We,
as human beings, must be willing to accept people
who are different from ourselves.
-- Barbara
Jordan
“How
do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of
people? The key is tolerance -- the one value that is indispensable
in creating community.” -- Barbara Jordan
Tolerance
is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by,
and is necessary for, civilization.
-- Arthur Keith
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"The
highest result of education is tolerance."
-- Helen
Keller (1903)
Toleration
is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the
same effort of the brain that it takes to balance
oneself on a bicycle. -- Helen
Keller
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"World
peace, like community peace, does not require that
each man love his neighbor -- it requires only that
they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting
their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement."
-- John
F. Kennedy
"Tolerance
implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs.
Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of
others." -- John
F. Kennedy
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Ultimately,
America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity,
the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom
has inspired.
-- Robert
F. Kennedy
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"I
believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance
and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry
and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
--
Coretta Scott King
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I
refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically
bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that
the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never
become a reality.... I believe that unarmed truth
and unconditional love will have the final word.
-- Martin
Luther King, Jr
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"What
we need to do is learn to respect and embrace our differences
until our differences don’t make a difference in how
we are treated."
-- Yolanda
King
Religious
tolerance is something we should all practice; however,
there have been more persecution and atrocities committed
in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything
else.
-- Walter Koenig
No human
trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets
less, than intolerance.
-- Giacomo Leopardi
Tolerance
is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's
beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing
or accepting them.
-- Joshua Liebman
Whereas
each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom
he accords to other men is a matter of toleration.
-- Walter Lippmann
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“Everybody is sitting around saying, 'Well, jeez,
we need somebody to solve this problem of bias.' That
somebody is us. We all have to try to figure out a
better way to get along.”
-- Wilma
Mankiller
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“In
recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay
ourselves the highest tribute.”
-- Thurgood
Marshall
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Winning
peace means the triumph of our pledge to establish,
on a democratic basis, a new social framework of tolerance
and generosity from which no one will feel excluded.
-- Federico
Mayor
It is
a good moment to repeat that a war is never won. Never mind
that history books tell us the opposite. The psychological
and material costs of war are so high that any triumph is
a pyrrhic victory. Only peace can be won and winning peace
means not only avoiding armed conflict but finding ways
of eradicating the causes of individual and collective violence:
injustice and oppression, ignorance and poverty, intolerance
and discrimination. We must construct a new set of values
and attitudes to replace the culture of war which, for centuries,
has been influencing the course of civilization. Winning
peace means the triumph of our pledge to establish, on a
democratic basis, a new social framework of tolerance and
generosity from which no one will feel excluded.
-- Federico
Mayor
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I
used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird.
Now I know that it is the people that call others weird
that are weird.
-- Paul
McCartney
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"I
resolutely believe that respect for diversity is a
fundamental pillar in the eradication of racism, xenophobia
and intolerance. There is no excuse for evading the
responsibility of finding the most suitable path toward
the elimination of any expression of discrimination
against indigenous peoples."
-- Rigoberta
Menchu
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"Peace cannot exist without justice, justice cannot
exist without fairness, fairness cannot exist without
development, development cannot exist without democracy,
democracy cannot exist without respect for the identity
and worth of cultures and peoples."
-- Rigoberta
Menchu
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We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos.
We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims
of intolerance and racism.
-- Rigoberta
Menchu
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We
are going forward with the idea of a multicultural
, a multinational state, trying to live in unity,
at the same time respecting our diversity...But we
need to all come together so we can live united.
--
Evo
Morales
The
peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when
it engages another equally open one.
-- Toni Morrison
Islam
teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not
enmity; peace, and not violence.
-- Pervez Musharraf
You
have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the
correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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The
only way to make sure people you agree with can speak
is to support the rights of people you don't agree
with.
-- Eleanor
Holmes Norton
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My
parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared
an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation.
They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed,
believing that in a tolerant America your name is
no barrier to success.
-- Barack
Obama
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"it
is particularly recommended, as a means of uniting
the inhabitants of the village into one family, that
while each faithfully adheres to the principles which
he most approves, at the same time all shall think
charitably of their neighbours respecting their religious
opinions, and not presumptuously suppose that theirs
alone are right.
-- Robert
Owen
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O
Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not
understand.
-- William
Penn
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Let
us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies
grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let
us speak of mutual understanding and mutual respect.
-- Father
Dominique Pire
We should
therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not
to tolerate the intolerant.
-- Karl Popper
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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
D.Roosevelt
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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
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
Your
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
“We
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
"Tolerance and human rights require each other."
-- Simon
Wiesenthal
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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
Through
the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in
mutual tolerance.
-- Emile Zola
