* “Everybody is sitting around saying, 'Well, jeez, we need somebody to solve this problem of bias.' That somebody is us. We all have to try to figure out a better way to get along.” -- Wilma Mankiller

* “In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.” -- Thurgood Marshall

* Winning peace means the triumph of our pledge to establish, on a democratic basis, a new social framework of tolerance and generosity from which no one will feel excluded. -- Federico Mayor

It is a good moment to repeat that a war is never won. Never mind that history books tell us the opposite. The psychological and material costs of war are so high that any triumph is a pyrrhic victory. Only peace can be won and winning peace means not only avoiding armed conflict but finding ways of eradicating the causes of individual and collective violence: injustice and oppression, ignorance and poverty, intolerance and discrimination. We must construct a new set of values and attitudes to replace the culture of war which, for centuries, has been influencing the course of civilization. Winning peace means the triumph of our pledge to establish, on a democratic basis, a new social framework of tolerance and generosity from which no one will feel excluded.
-- Federico Mayor

* I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird. -- Paul McCartney

* "I resolutely believe that respect for diversity is a fundamental pillar in the eradication of racism, xenophobia and intolerance. There is no excuse for evading the responsibility of finding the most suitable path toward the elimination of any expression of discrimination against indigenous peoples." -- Rigoberta Menchú * "Peace cannot exist without justice, justice cannot exist without fairness, fairness cannot exist without development, development cannot exist without democracy, democracy cannot exist without respect for the identity and worth of cultures and peoples." -- Rigoberta Menchú

* We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism. 
-- Rigoberta Menchú

* We are going forward with the idea of a multicultural , a multinational state, trying to live in unity, at the same time respecting our diversity...But we need to all come together so we can live united. -- Evo Morales

The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
-- Toni Morrison

Islam teaches tolerance, not hatred; universal brotherhood, not enmity; peace, and not violence.
-- Pervez Musharraf

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

* The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with. -- Eleanor Holmes Norton

* My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success. -- Barack Obama

* "it is particularly recommended, as a means of uniting the inhabitants of the village into one family, that while each faithfully adheres to the principles which he most approves, at the same time all shall think charitably of their neighbours respecting their religious opinions, and not presumptuously suppose that theirs alone are right. -- Robert Owen

* O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand. -- William Penn

* Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding and mutual respect. -- Father Dominique Pire

We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.
-- Karl Popper

 

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Tolerance Day - November 16