Quotes about Tolerance

But he keeps his heart free of any feelings of hatred.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

She had an air of seeming to wait, as if for a man to get through with something more important than herself, a battle or an operation, during which he must not be hurried or interfered with. When the man had finished she would be waiting, without fret or impatience, somewhere on a highstool, turning the pages of a newspaper.

To this husband of hers she made the last concession of married life, which is more complete, more irrevocable, than the first—she listened to him. She told herself that the years had brought her tolerance—actually they had slain what measure she had ever possessed of moral courage. She

And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on.

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

We were taught in school, and I was taught at home and in church, that blacks and whites were equal and we should not discriminate based on skin color, even if my school was almost entirely white.