Quotes and Sayings about Tolerance

I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that.

Pocahontas in Pocahontas

God never made no difference between black, white, blue, pink or green. People is people, y'know. That's the message we try to spread.

Bob Marley

God

Why can't they understand the way we feel?
They just don't trust, what they can't explain
I know we're different, but deep inside us
We're not that different at all

Tarzan

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

Albert Einstein

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

Fred Rogers

Love

Do we have to know who's gay and who's straight? Can't we just love everybody and judge them by the car they drive?

Ellen DeGeneres

Homosexuality & LGBTQ+Cars

At this point I have a request for our fans. If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of different color, or women, please do this one favor for us - leave us the f*ck alone! Don't come to our shows and don't buy our records.

Kurt Cobain

James Royce: "The Christians and the Jews didn't blow up the Capitol or run planes into the Twin Towers. Muslims did."
Emily Rhodes: "No, sir. Extremists did. And persecuting innocent people won't make any of us safer."

Emily Rhodes in Designated Survivor - Season 1 Episode 4

Islam

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

Martin Luther King

USA Independence Day

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.

Martin Luther King

Vision Human Rights 1963 Famous Quotes

I respect people of all sexualities; I respect people of all religions, all faiths.

Scott Morrison

I'm a human being before anything else.

Freida Pinto

I don't care what color the parents are. I don't care if it's a giraffe and a fish living together. If they're raising children who believe they're honored and loved, that's all that's important.

Patricia Polacco

Parents Homosexuality & LGBTQ+

The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.

Princess Diana

Facism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling.

Miguel de Unamuno

Traveling Reading

The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.

Ed Sheeran

Laughing & Smile Positive Quotes

There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.

Malala Yousafzai

Skin

My philosophy is it's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

Anthony Hopkins

Life

Here's what I can say: When you're young, when you're in elementary school or when you're in highschool, it's important to try and fit in and be accepted and to be part of the average. Everyone does it, that's the way it goes. But let me assure you, if you're getting bullied and you're feeling like you are on the outskirts, that it gets better. Because when you're getting older you find, that people are actually drawn towards individuals with different points of view, who are proud of who they are and who make interesting and different and unique choices for them.

Neil Patrick Harris - about tolerance and bullying

High School Bullying

We all have the same right to live, no matter where we come from, what we look like or who we love.

Sebastian Vettel - July 2022, about retiring from Formula 1

Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating part of yourself.

Elvis Presley

Humanity Hatred

God judges men by their hearts, not by the color of their skins.

Harriet Ann Jacobs - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Racism Skin

Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.

Natalie Dormer

Perfection

That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.

Mos Def

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

Ani DiFranco

Community

One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.

Ella Maillart

Traveling

This country gave us hope. This country allowed for us to develop our own identity and to create our own home. And we should not look down on the next person that is trying to do that.

Ilhan Omar

USA 2019

This is my charge to everyone: We have to be better. We have to love more, hate less. We gotta listen more, and talk less. We gotta know that this is everybody's responsibility.

Megan Rapinoe - nach dem Finalsieg der Frauen Fußball Weltmeisterschaft 2019

2019

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

E. B. White

Humanity

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. In order to appreciate cultures of another nation, one needs to go there, know the people and mingle with the culture of that country. One way to do that, if one is lucky enough, is to buy things from those cultures.

David Rockefeller

Traveling

I'm going to tell you what my religion is. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Period. Terminato. Finito.

Gene Wilder

Religion

You cannot mandate philanthropy. It has to come from within, and when it does, it is deeply satisfying.

Azim Premji

There is a plan and a purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability.

Sharron Angle

Disabilities

Sooner or later, if man is ever to be worthy of his destiny, we must fill our hearts with tolerance.

Stan Lee

We live in a diverse society - in fact, a diverse world - and we must learn to live in peace and with respect for each other.

Stan Lee

Respect

I do not like carving the world into segments; we are one world.

Indira Gandhi

World

My mother always taught me to think about things from other people's perspectives and think about where they're coming from.

Julia Stiles

We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.

Aretha Franklin

Human Rights Respect

To single out a particular group and say we can't make a joke about them is almost a form of prejudice and it's kind of patronizing.

Sacha Baron Cohen

Humor & Comedy

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

Audre Lorde

Humanity

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

Lady Gaga

Music

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

Thomas Paine

Selflessness

I find racism disgusting! If I were younger, I would go into politics.

Astrid Lindgren

Racism

I spent more time in Spane than in Turkey - does that make me a German-Turkish Spaniard or a Spanisch-German Turk? Why do we always think in borders? I want to be a footballer - football is international and not about where people come from.

Mesut Özil - 22.06.2012, Interview FAZ

Quotes about Football/Soccer

I don’t care where people come from. It is not important to me. If you are good people will like you, if you’re not, they won’t. It is simple.

Wladimir Klitschko

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

George Eliot

Worm: "That's my n*gga right there. If you was any bigga, you'd be my 'bigga n*gga'."
Ken Carter: "Sit down. SIT DOWN! N-gger is a degrogatory term used to insult our ancestors. See, if a white man used it, you'd be ready to fight. Your using it teaches him to use it. You're saying it's cool. Well, it's not cool, and when you're around me, I don't want to hear that shit! Are we clear?"

Ken Carter in Coach Carter

Racism

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It's our "white" responsibility to make sure people who speak out about racism are safe at all times. This means ending structural racism in our societies, authorities and media.

Carola Rackete

Racism

Men must be free to do what they believe. It is not our right to punish one for thinking what they do, no matter how much we disagree.

Assassin's Creed

Human Rights Freedom Opinions

I am not gay. Although I wish I were, just to piss off homophobes.

Kurt Cobain

Homosexuality & LGBTQ+Homophobia

You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.

Sarah Dessen in Keeping the Moon

Self-Confidence Respect

Justice comes from vengeance but justice only breeds more vengeance.

Pain / Nagato in Naruto

Revenge Justice

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