Phylicia Rashad Quotes

My experience of living with people of diverse religions and cultures taught me that one will never be at peace with the other if one is at war with oneself.

I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.

And I'm happy to say that I'm able to find people wherever I go that are not black, not white - they're just human beings. That's where I am, where I've been and where I intend to stay.

As I lived on in America, I got to truly know the people of this country - so many kind and wonderful people, people of so many races - who helped me in so many ways. Who became my friends. I realized that underneath our different accents, habits, foods, religions, ways of thinking, we shared a common humanity.

Religious celebrations, and the good will, high spirits and generosity that mark them, are wonderful occasions for understanding the potential of 'everyday multiculturalism', and how people from diverse faiths can connect and show they care, rather than go down parallel, sometimes hostile, roads.

America is made of different races and different religions, but we're all co-travelers on the spaceship Earth and must respect and help each other along the way.

One thing that education can do is it can provide us with an opportunity to understand one another better, and so while I've spent a lot of my time in the world of politics, I've always felt that it is really not politics that will solve this for us.

Acceptance is the only thing you should teach. Be it Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Dalit, you must inculcate acceptance, not tolerance.

So why don't all religions get together and go to war with atheists? Because we all want the same thing: respect and tolerance and not to be forced to do anything we don't want to.

In a time where there are divides between cultures and races, I would love to use my position to show that we are all the same inside and working together is the key to moving forward.

We need to not be scared [of muslim], but understand each other. When you're around these people, you see they have much more in common than their differences.

We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations, we should do so with compassion.

I love all people, whatever race they are.

For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.

In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all.

One of the challenges of the church is to accept humanity for all it is.

Liberals, conservatives, Muslims, Jews, Christians, and I find - I think education is something that can bring us together.

We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together.

Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together - black, white, Chinese, everyone - that's all.

All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

It brings people together. It brings the races together. It brings religions together.

We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.

I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life - whoever you are, whatever our differences.

Until we learn to honor and respect what other people believe, I think we are doomed.

One of the lines from my books is about having respect for different minds, and if I had to have an epitaph at this point in my life, that would be it.