Acceptance Quote by Arun Gandhi

The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there…

— Morris Dees

“Tolerance used to be the attitude that we took toward one another when we disagreed about an important issue; we would agree to treat…

— J. Warner Wallace

“For tolerance (and you must remember this when you grow older), is of very recent origin and even the people of our own so-called…

— Hendrik Willem van Loon

Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude; it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Being tolerant does not mean acquiescing to the intolerable; it does not mean covering up disrespect; it does not mean coddling the aggressor or…

— Paulo Freire

“Tolerance, meanwhile, is about learning how to be patient. It’s about learning how to understand that people will not always be the best of…

— E.M. Garver

Rather than teaching tolerance; teach understanding.

— Rita Schiano

Tolerance obviously requires a non-contentious manner of relating toward one another’s differences. But tolerance does not require abandoning one’s standards or one’s opinions on…

— Dallin H. Oaks

“Tolerance, which is one form of love of neighbor, must manifest itself not only in our personal relations, but also in the arena of…

— Joshua Loth Liebman

Tolerance can be exercised only by those who have well-grounded convictions (although it will not always be exercised even by them). For such people…

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

“Tolerance is most decidedly not the equal of respect. It pales in comparison. In inter-personal relationships, tolerance as the basis of attitude and conduct…

— Keat Peng Goh

“Multicultural societies are so invested in “tolerance” that they’ll tolerate the explicitly intolerant (and avowedly unicultural) before they’ll tolerate anyone pointing out that intolerance.”

— Mark Steyn