#tolerance

Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#both #definition #directed #gays #great

We can practice tolerance while still holding true to cultural values that protect the institution of marriage as a union between only a man and a woman. ↗

— Ken Calvert

#cultural #holding #institution #man #marriage

Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#condition #encouraged #held #mind #necessary

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#commitment #condemns #implies #lack #oppression

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#gentler #gotten #had #i #kindness

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#eclipse #fact #human #human reason #intolerance

Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue. ↗

— Charles Simmons

#days #endeavors #fire #intolerance #modern

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

#tolerance #vanity

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

#god #grace #judge #love #tolerance

One race, Many cultures, One place. ↗

— Geoffrey M. Gluckman

#one-love #respect #tolerance #unity #love