Tolerance Quotes And Sayings

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“The most unpresentable persons are generally the most interesting.”
– Teresa de la Parra

“Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“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

“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”
– Thomas Mann

“If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.”
– Thomas Paine

“In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.”
– Thurgood Marshall

“Tolerance isn’t about not having beliefs. It’s about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.”
– Timothy Keller

“Tolerance and celebration of individual differences is the fire that fuels lasting love.”
– Tom Hannah

“The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.”
– Toni Morrison

“Go where you are celebrated – not tolerated. If they can’t see the real value of you, it’s time for a new start.”
– Unknown

“If a profound gulf separates my neighbor’s belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.”
– Unknown

“Toleration is the best religion.”
– Victor Hugo

“Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.”
– Voltaire

“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

“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

“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

“Tolerance is the oil which takes the friction out of life.”
– Wilbert E. Scheer

“Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.”
– William Allen White

“O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.”
– William Penn

“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

“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

“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

“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

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