Quotes about Tolerance

Acquaintance softens prejudice.

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.

I know it sounds crazy, but as soon as Christians start telling non-Christians how to live their lives, we've lost the Christian faith.

I prefer to heed the wise words of Booker T. Washington: I would permit no man to drag down my soul by making me hate him.

It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.

Nothing is more praiseworthy, nothing more suited to a great and illustrious man than placability and a merciful disposition.

We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man.

We anticipate a time when the love of truth shall have come up to our love of liberty, and men shall be cordially tolerant and earnest believers both at once.

I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.

We do not see into men's hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge.

We maintain therefore that in matters of Religion, no man's right is abridged by the institution of Civil Society, and that Religion is wholly exempt from its cognizance.

The final battle against intolerance is to be fought - not in the chambers of any legislature - but in the hearts of men.