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“To overcome prejudice, we can boldly speak against it and teach our children total intolerance for it. We can get to know one another; when we do so, the stereotypes that impede relationships will fall away. Finally, we can express regret to others for past prejudicial sins and ask God to forgive us and change our thinking.”

Thinking Knows Children Past Fall Asks Speak Sin Teach Regret Overcoming Prejudice Our Children Forgiving Intolerance Stereotype

Author:Beth Moore

“Let us not fear the opposition of men; every great movement in the Church from Paul down to modern times has been criticized on the ground that it promoted scensoriousness and intolerance and disputing. Of course the gospel of Christ, in a world of sin and doubt will cause disputing; and if does not cause disputing and arrouse bitter opposition, that is a fairly sure sign that it is not being faithfully proclaimed.”

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Author:John Gresham Machen

“Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.”

Heart Helping Dialogue Impulse Rejection Intolerance

Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.”

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Author:Robert Green Ingersoll

“We don't lump people by groups or special interests. And let me add, in the party of Lincoln there is no room for intolerance and not even a small corner for anti-Semitism or bigotry of any kind. Many people are welcome in our house, but not the bigots.”

People Kind House Interest Rooms Party Groups Special Let Me Add Corners Welcome Bigotry Intolerance Special Interests Lumps Anti Semitism Bigots

Book:Speaking my mind: selected speeches

Source: Speaking my mind: selected speeches

“Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”

World Way Wish Understanding Loses Enemy Helping Others Best Way Finding Yourself Intolerance Service To Others Losing Yourself Others Helping You

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Intolerance is evidence of fear, and fear is the consequence of feeling powerless.”

Feelings Evidence Consequence Intolerance Powerless

Author:Dean Frazer

“Let us not become so tolerant that we tolerate intolerance.”

Intolerance Tolerate

Author:Bill Maher

“Leadership means firmness, not harshness or bullying; understanding, not weakness; justice, not irresponsible freedom; humaneness, not intolerance; generosity, not selfishness; pride, not egotism.”

Mean Understanding Justice Pride Weakness Generosity Selfishness Bullying Intolerance Egotism Irresponsible Firmness Harshness

Author:Omar N. Bradley

“I know a whole generation has been raised on the notion of multiculturalism; that all civilizations are just different. No! Not always. Sometimes things are better! Rule of law is better than autocracy and theocracy; equality of the sexes, better; protection of minorities, better; free speech, better; free elections, better; free appliances with large purchases, better! Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.”

“Here among the constant ruins and rebuilding of civilizations lies the coexistence of diversity and intolerance.”

Lying Civilization Diversity Constant Ruins Intolerance Rebuilding Coexistence

Book:Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land

Source: Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land

“I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.”

Religious Opinion Positive Atheism Tolerance Bows Intolerance Inquiry Religious Freedom Interfaith Shrines Religious Intolerance

Book:Thomas Jefferson: selections from his writings edited, with an introduction

Source: Thomas Jefferson: selections from his writings edited, with an introduction

“If we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.”

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Book:The Open Society and Its Enemies

Source: The Open Society and Its Enemies

“Our society's obsession with tolerance leads to intolerance. Simply being a Christian today is an offense to our culture.”

Today Christian Culture Tolerance Obsession Our Society Intolerance Offense

Author:Charles Colson

“Our efforts to counter hatred, intolerance, and indifference must continue simultaneously at individual and structural levels. We must try to influence for good the minds and hearts of individual people through dialogue and confidence building. These efforts must be reinforced by our efforts to create just structures in society to support the ongoing work of negotiations in the human community. Only then will we have a chance to negate the terrible consequences of the tremendous conflicts facing humankind today.”

“You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.”

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Author:Susan B. Anthony

“The film and media technology that's available today is going to be the most potent weapon in our arsenal in tackling ideological intolerance and ignorance, as well as the kind of fear and stereotyping that can dehumanize the others as the enemy, as being somehow less entitled to the privileges and the aspirations that we have.”

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Author:Queen Noor of Jordan

“Because of these new car models there is suddenly on the streets of Delhi a new intolerance by the motorists for both the cows and the cyclists. So for the first time the sacred cow in India, which used to be such a wonderful speed-breaker, is now seen as a nuisance. For the first time, Ive seen cows being hit and hurt. These guys just go right past, and if the cow is sitting on the road, they dont care. We cant afford to have a sacred car rather than a sacred cow.”

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Author:Vandana Shiva

“To me, intolerance leads down a dreadful path that the world sometimes seems to be going to.”

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Author:Brian Froud

“There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance.”

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Author:Peter Jackson

“When people decide that a certain way of faith is destined and inevitable, hatred and intolerance follow. Instead of saying, 'The Light is within you, choose the Light,' the message becomes 'Agree with our version of history or we'll kill you.'”

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Author:John Twelve Hawks

“It's the lack of humanity in the human psyche that haunts me. The hypocrisy. How people as a group can take something like tolerance and contort it into a new form of intolerance and conformity. The way humanity can justify any kind of evil.”

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Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“The candidates unleashing heated words about race, bigotry, and intolerance. Donald Trump chasing the minority vote and hurling a blistering accusation at his opponent.”

Race Trump Vote Opponents Candidates Minorities Bigotry Intolerance Chasing Accusation Hurling Unleashing

Author:Martha Raddatz

“My aim is to lay bare and proclaim the crying and horrible guilt of the bloody doctrine of persecution as one of the most seditious, destructive, blasphemous, and bloodiest in any or all the nations of the world, notwithstanding the many fine veils, pretenses, and colors of not persecuting Christ Jesus, but heretics; not God's truth or servants, but blasphemers and seducers; not persecuting men for their conscience, but for sinning against their conscience; and like specious reasonings to justify the cruelty of intolerance.”

“One of the paradoxes of liberal societies arises from the commitment to tolerance. A society committed to respecting the viewpoints and customs of diverse people within a pluralistic society inevitably encounters this challenge: will you tolerate those who themselves do not agree to respect the viewpoints or customs of others? Paradoxically, the liberal commitment to tolerance requires, at some point, intolerance for those who would reject that very commitment.”

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Author:Martha Minow

“In Western Europe and North America some things are better than they were - at least relative to their moral nadirs - such as labour legislation, the opening of the professions to women, intolerance for domestic violence, but so much is still morally unacceptable - the weapons trade, cruel and unusual punishment, economic parasitism.”

“A lot of subjects blend into the same thing: intolerance. When you're a little kid, you don't know that it's going to get better. Your life experience hasn't told you that. I want to protect those people. I want to send out a message and at least try to get that across.”

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Author:Michael Buble

“This country wants to live in the illusion that it is tolerant but also wants to be able to practice intolerance.”

Want Country Able Practice Illusion Intolerance

Author:Junot Diaz

“We have not confronted forcefully enough the intolerance, sectarianism, and hopelessness that feeds violent extremism in too many parts of the globe.”

Enough Violent Intolerance Globes Hopelessness Extremism Sectarianism

Author:Barack Obama

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

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Author:John F. Kennedy

“Intolerance has become, I think, the reigning ideology of the world today, the intolerance versus intolerance and it's taken on lethal proportions.”

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Author:Wole Soyinka

“Intolerance has always been with us, you know. The moment you have ideology, we have intolerance, whether it's the secular ideology or, you know ideocratic ideology, which always brings with it some kind of intolerance.”

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Author:Wole Soyinka

“Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.”

Source: A New Day: Robert F. Kennedy

“Just imagine what would happen if Obama grew a pair and in his last year in office just said, "Forget it. Football is just too violent and too damaging to the economically vulnerable communities in this country. And it normalizes violence and fosters intolerance, etc." I mean: that would be awesome.”

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Author:Steve Almond

“The lessons of history show - and I'm not talking about any particular history, all history - when you see minor abuses start to build up in the intolerance space and do nothing about them, then they lead to bigger and bigger abuses.”

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Author:Tim Kaine

“The problem in Guatemala is that there is no solution to the issue of human rights. The problem is militarization, it is the injust distribution of wealth. It is intolerance of the indigenous, it is discrimination and marginalization.”

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Author:Rigoberta Menchu

“Intolerance has always been one of the cornerstones of Christianity - the glorious heritage of the Inquisition. It's no coincidence that most of my abusive mail - sentencing me to exquisite Oriental tortures and relegating me to hell-fire and damnation -comes from self-admitted Catholics.”

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Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair

“I mean, you know, there's a lot of talk about tolerance in the country today having to do with people on the left. And Indiana steps forward to protect the constitutional rights and privileges of freedom of religion for people of faith and families of faith in our state and this avalanche of intolerance that's been poured on our state is just outrageous.”

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Author:Mike Pence

“I do not claim to have any developed or sophisticated views in political philosophy, but I think that one of the lessons of the last few hundred years of history is that the greatest threat to human prosperity and well-being is fanaticism and intolerance, even in the name of apparently laudable goals.”

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Author:Tim Crane

“I have tried to defend what is most precious to our American society, a society that is now at war against the forces of racial intolerance.A big part of me making the decision was how important the play is for the times that we live in. This is a classic. It's a masterpiece of American playwriting. It's about discrimination and it's about we Mexicans being a target for so many years.”

Important War Decision Discrimination Classic Intolerance Masterpiece

Author:Demian Bichir

“So many academics have been imprisoned or expelled from their university posts just because they signed a letter calling for peaceful solution to the Kurdish issue. They are all declared enemies of the state by the president. Just because they published a letter saying, "stop killing each other and begin talking for a peaceful resolution." That kind of intolerance from the government towards the rest of society - especially people in favor of freedom of speech, human rights, and more democracy for everyone - is a very important issue in Turkey.”

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Author:Burhan Sonmez

“Intolerance has been the curse of our country.”

Has Beens Country Our Country Curse Intolerance

Author:James Larkin

“No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.”

Humans Deserve Everyday Tolerance Traits Intolerance Everyday Life

Author:Giacomo Leopardi

“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.”

Hate House Music Is Respect Hip Hop Hips Hops Intolerance House Music

Author:Chris Lowe

“Tolerance is another word for indifference.”

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Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.”

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Author:Pierre Bayle

“Joe Arpaio needs no help from me getting attention. For years he has been a beacon of bigotry and intolerance for all the world to see. The list of human and civil-rights abuses he’s committed in Maricopa County is long and well documented.”

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Author:Conor Oberst

“So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.'”

“Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.”

“I came from a lot of intolerance and prejudice, which aren't necessarily healthy to evolve as a human.”

Humans Healthy Prejudice Evolve Intolerance

Author:Katy Perry

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