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We
need to promote greater tolerance and understanding
among the peoples of the world. Nothing can
be more dangerous to our efforts to build peace
and development than a world divided along religious,
ethnic or cultural lines. In each nation, and
among all nations, we must work to promote unity
based on our shared humanity.
Kofi
Annan
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It
is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and
intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.
-- Pierre Bayle
"Toleration
is good for all, or it is good for none."
-- Edmund Burke
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"In
the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the
best teacher."
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Tolerance
comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself
could not have committed at some time or other.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The
only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the
practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance,
a sincere respect for opinions that are not ours."
--Philip Gilbert Hamerton
"Toleration
is the best religion."
-- Victor Hugo
"The
highest result of education is tolerance."
-- Helen
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"Tolerance
implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs.
Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution
of others."
-- John
F. Kennedy
"World
peace, like community peace, does not require
that each man love his neighbor -- it requires
only that they live together with mutual tolerance,
submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful
settlement."
-- John
F. Kennedy
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Ultimately,
America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity,
the very diversity which our heritage of religious
freedom has inspired.
-- Robert
F. Kennedy |
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Tolerance
is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's
beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily
sharing or accepting them.
-- Joshua Liebman
Whereas
each man claims his freedom as a matter of right,
the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of
toleration.
-- Walter Lippmann
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In
recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings,
we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
-- Thurgood
Marshall |
The
peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind
when it engages another equally open one.
-- Toni Morrison
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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 |
"If
civilization is to survive, we must cultivate
the science of human relationships - the ability
of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together,
in the same world at peace."
-- Franklin
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"Live
and let live."
-- Scottish proverb
The
test of courage comes when we are in the minority.
The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
-- Ralph W. Sockman
What
is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We
are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon
reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first
law of nature.
-- Voltaire
Through
the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson
in mutual tolerance.
-- Emile Zola
