Some quotes about acceptance, tolerance, and diversity:
"The words you speak today should be soft and tender ... for tomorrow you may have to eat them." —
Unknown
“Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that
belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.” — Immanuel
Kant, 18th century Prussian geographer and philosopher
“In his private heart no man much respects himself.” — Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), 19th-century American
humorist, author and journalist
"The highest result of education is tolerance." — Helen Keller, 20th-century American Nobel Prize-winning social
activist, public speaker and author
"The equal toleration of all religions . . . is the same thing as atheism." — Pope Leo XIII
"Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is make it easier for
people to accept themselves, to like themselves." — Bonaro Overstreet
Civilizations should be measured by "the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained." —
W.H. Auden, 20th-century English poet
“Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.” — Jesse Jackson, 20th-century American political
activist, preacher
“Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.” — Elvis Presley, 20th-century American
celebrity entertainer
“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.” — Jonathan
Swift, 17th/18th-century English satirist
“The true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.” — Ann
Landers, 20th-century American newspaper “advice” columnist
“Prejudice is the child of ignorance.” — William Hazlitt, early 18th-century English essayist and literary critic |
