#tolerance

When the United States was founded, the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships, monarchies, and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#democratic #dictatorships #doomed #experiment #fail

House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all. ↗

— Chris Lowe

#good #hate #hip #hip hop #hop

It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#focus #humility #judgement #judgemental #self

As I’ve been telling your, son, you get nowhere looking at clothes and the color of the skin to judge a man. It won’t tell you nothing about what’s inside. That’s where a fellow’s mettle is, and that’s what counts. ↗

— Richard Puz

#judging-by-appearance #judging-people #race #respecting-others #tolerance

In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else's path is wrong. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#tolerance #faith

Do not deride someone's faith simply because you do not share it, Lord Cladent," Sazed said quietly. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#faith

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) ↗

— Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

#tolerance #life

As you walk, hop, hobble, or wheel Meeting people of different kinds, Remember that being handicapped Is only a state of mind ↗

— Stephen Cosgrove

#handicap #inspirational #lesson #tolerance #inspirational

..each bloodletting hastens the next, and as the value of human life is degraded and violence becomes tolerated, the unimaginable becomes more conceivable. ↗

— Bill Clinton

#genocide #human-life #rwanda #sanctity-of-life #tolerance

If we can understand each other, then is anything really beyond our reach? ↗

— Pearl North

#respect