Anybody who wants religion is welcome to it, as far as I'm concerned--I support your right to enjoy it. However, I would appreciate it if you exhibited more respect for the rights of those people who do not wish to share your dogma, rapture, or necrodestination.
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Differences challenge assumptions.
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Across America, a constant cross-pollination is occurring, a not entirely orderly but generally peaceful collision among people and cultures. Identities are scrambling, and then cohering in new ways. Beliefs keep slipping through the noose of predictability. Facile expectations and simple explanations are being constantly upended. Spend time actually talking to Americans, and you discover that most evangelicals are more tolerant than the media would have us believe, most secularists more spiritual. Most rich people want the poor to succeed, and most of the poor are both more self-critical and hold higher aspirations than the popular culture allows.
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The Audacity of Hope
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Contribution #2543
This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected.
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Speech on race relations in U.S., March 18, 2008
Contribution #2526
I tell them I have worked 40 years to make the W.S. platform broad enough for Atheists and Agnostics to stand upon, and now if need be I will fight the next 40 to keep it Catholic enough to permit the straightest Orthodox religionist to speak or pray and count her beads upon. (on women's suffrage)
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What you should say to outsiders is that a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our Association than an atheist. When our platform becomes too narrow for people of all creeds and of no creeds, I myself shall not stand upon it. (on women's suffrage)
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How any human being ever has had the impudence to speak against the right to speak, is beyond the power of my imagination. Here is a man who speaks--who exercises a right that he, by his speech, denies. Can liberty go further than that? Is there any toleration possible beyond the liberty to speak against liberty--the real believer in free speech allowing others to speak against the right to speak?
The only reason why we wish to exchange thoughts is that we are different. If we were all the same, we would die dumb. No thought would be expressed after we found that our thoughts were precisely alike. We differ--our thoughts are different. Therefore the commerse that we call conversation.
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.
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Essay on Tolerance
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
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Let us, then, fellow-citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions.
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Excerpt from First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801
Contribution #1657
True patriots believe that freedom from responsibility is selfishness, freedom from sacrifice is cowardice, freedom from tolerance is prejudice, freedom from stewardship is exploitation, and freedom from compassion is cruelty.
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The True Patriot
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Published by True Patriot Network
, Seattle, USA
, 2007
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Contribution #1655
When you see a straight piece of wood, you do not want to make it into a wheel.
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The Little Book of Chinese Proverbs
by Jonathan Clements
Page 192
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Shade and light are different in every valley.
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The Little Book of Chinese Proverbs
by Jonathan Clements
Page 165
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Fish live in water. Men die in it.
Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.
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It's a mistake to surround yourself
only with people just like you.
Throw off that worn comforter --
and replace it with a crazy quilt of
different and imaginative people.
Then watch the ideas erupt!
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If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
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love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the
border?
Cultural differences should not separate us from each other, but rather cultural diversity brings a collective strength that can benefit all of humanity.
Teach
this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service
and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Truth is one; sages call it by various names.
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God is always God, but the views which people and nations may take of him vary. No higher view is known than that of love.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He can be approached.
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Religions are different roads converging on the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads, so long as we reach the same goal?
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The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
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Arthur James Balfour
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Contribution #697
We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.
Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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Agnes Repplier
Viewed on April 10, 2008
Contribution #457
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
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Mahatma Gandhi
Viewed on April 9, 2008
Contribution #396
I describe family values as responsibility towards others, increase of tolerance, compromise, support, flexibility. And essentially the things I call the silent song of life—the continuous process of mutual accommodation without which life is impossible.
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Minuchin Salvador
Viewed on April 9, 2008
Contribution #315
World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor -- it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement.
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John F. Kennedy
Viewed on April 7, 2008
Contribution #181
Travel teaches tolerance.
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Benjamin Disraeli
Viewed on April 7, 2008
Contribution #180
What does tolerance look like in a person?
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