Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand; with a grip that kills it.--Rabindranath Tagore

Cultivate your own capabilities, your own style. Appreciate the members of your family for who they are, even though their outlook or style may be miles different from yours. Rabbits don't fly. Eagles don't swim. Ducks look funny trying to climb. Squirrels don't have feathers. Stop comparing. There's plenty of room in the forest.--Chuck Swindoll

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.--Martin Luther King, Jr.

Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.--Chinese proverb

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.--Frederick II, the Great

Greetings, I am pleased to see that we are different. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us.--Vulcan greeting

How do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance--the one value that is indispensable in creating community.--Barbara Jordan

How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.--George Washington Carver

Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty.--Raisa M. Gorbachev

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody--it saves so much time.--Rudyard Kipling

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.--Martin Luther King, Jr. (speech at Civil Rights March on Washington, 8/28/63)

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.--Martin Luther King Jr.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.--Alice Walker

If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?--Thomas á Kempis

I'm quite sure that ... I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed, I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being--that is enough for me he can't be any worse.--Mark Twain

It takes a disciplined person to listen to convictions which are different from their own.--Dorothy Fuldman (A Thousand Friends)

Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made them duck by duck and that was the only way I could see them.--Zora Neale Hurston

Man is always inclined to be intolerant towards the thing, or person, he hasn't taken the time adequately to understand…--Robert R. Brown

Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.--John Stuart Mill (On Liberty)

Minds are like parachutes--they only function when open.--Sir James Dewar

People are very open-minded about new things--as long as they're exactly like the old ones.--Charles F. Kettering

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try to understand each other, we may even become friends.--Maya Angelou ("Passports to Understanding" Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now)

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.--Charlotte Bronte (Jane Eyre)

Sometimes I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.--Zora Neale Hurston

There is divine beauty in learning, just as there is human beauty in tolerance. To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you.--Elie Wiesel

Those wearing Tolerance for a label
Call other views intolerable.--Phyllis McGinley ("In Praise of Diversity" The Love Letters of Phyllis McGinley)

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.--G. K. Chesterton

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.--Napoleon Hill

We should acknowledge differences, we should greet differences, until difference makes no difference anymore.--Dr. Adela A. Allen

What is toleration? It is the prerogative of humanity. We are all steeped in weaknesses and errors: Let us forgive one another's follies, it is the first law of nature.--Voltaire ("Toleration" Philosophical Dictionary)

When we clearly understand that there is no superior sex or superior race, we will have opened the door of communication and laid the foundation for building winning relationships with all people in this global world of ours.--Zig Ziglar (Zig Ziglar's Little Book of Big Quotes) 

Who do you want to barbecue today? Someone who doesn't see things quite our way?--Bash 'N the Code

Xenophobia doesn't benefit anybody unless you're playing high-stakes Scrabble.--Dennis Miller

You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.--Doug Floyd

You've got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made,
Of people whose skin is a different shade.
You've got to be carefully taught.--Oscar Hammerstein II ("You've Got to be Carefully Taught" South Pacific)