tolerance Quotes

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

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 and understand each other, we may even become friends.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God - if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That's what I think.

Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn't matter. You said, 'That's an American' because there's a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience.