To: Lane3 who wrote (699 ) 8/25/2001 1:46:36 PM From: epicure Respond to of 51718 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