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#1

“Tolerance only for those who agree with you is no tolerance at all.”
― Ray A. Davis

tags: respect, tolerance

#2

“Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.”
― Malcolm X

tags: condemnation, knowledge, tolerance, understanding

468 likes

#3

“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, The Man In The Arena: Speeches and Essays by Theodore Roosevelt

84 likes

#4

“Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.”
― Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary

tags: tolerance

81 likes

#5

“As fallible humans, we usually slip too far over one edge or the other - all wrath and judgment or all grace and love.”
― Eric Wilson, A Shred of Truth

tags: christian, god, grace, judge, love, tolerance

38 likes

#6

“In this world, unity is achievable only by learning to unite in spite of differences, rather than insisting on unity without differences. For their total eradication is an impossibility. The secret of attaining peace in life is tolerance of disturbance of the peace. (p. 99)”
― Wahiduddin Khan, The True Jihad: The Concept of Peace, Tolerance and Non Violence in Islam

tags: peace, tolerance

42 likes

#7

“We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: brotherhood, inspirational, wisdom

1044 likes

#8

“Tolerance is nothing more than patience with boundaries.”
― Shannon Alder

tags: boundaries, patience, tolerance

64 likes

#9

“You are my brother and I love you. I love you worshipping in your church, kneeling in your temple, and praying in your mosque. You and I and all are children of one religion, for the varied paths of religion are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being, extended to all, offering completeness of spirit to all, anxious to receive all.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet and Other Writings

tags: gibran, love, poetry, tolerance

26 likes

#10

“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.”
― Kahlil Gibran

1543 likes

#11

“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

tags: beliefs, tolerance

103 likes

#12

“A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false.”
― Benjamin Franklin, A Benjamin Franklin Reader: The Essential Writings of a Colonial Sage

tags: fallibilism, tolerance

36 likes

#13

“God has given us many faiths but only one world in which to co-exist. May your work help all of us to cherish our commonalities and feel enlarged by our differences.”
― Jonathan Sacks

tags: coexistence, inspirational, tolerance

25 likes

#14

“All I say is: Let us leave les folles alone; let's just leave them be. Don't judge them. You are not superior to them - don't put them down.”
― John Irving, In One Person

tags: gay, homesexual, les-folles, tolerance

18 likes

#15

“Every second you spend holding someone else back is time not running the race yourself.”
― Rebecca Murphy

tags: human-rights, inspirational, people-skills, tolerance

8 likes

#16

“All of the world's religions have important things to teach us, and they are not as different from each other as some would have you believe.”
― Kent Allan Rees, Molly Withers and the Golden Tree

tags: religion, tolerance

4 likes

#17

“Righteous, I like that. Kinda fitting when you think about it. If we danced and shared music, we'd be too busy en-joy-in' life to start a war.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

tags: arts, arts-and-humanities, culture, dance, dancing, enjoy-life, enjoyment, give-peace-a-chance, life, music, peace, tolerance, war, world-peace

21 likes

#18

“True openness is the accompaniment of the desire to know, hence of the awareness of ignorance. To deny the possibility of knowing good and bad is to suppress true openness.”
― Allan Bloom

tags: tolerance

12 likes

#19

“You have to look at people now that were members of the Klu Klux Klan or whatever else and now are trying to rewrite their personal histories to tell that they've always been tolerant. It's not peculiar to want to sanitize what you did.”
― Ruth Hanna Sachs

tags: klu-klux-klan, lies, tolerance

3 likes

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