Mary Travers Quotes

It is my contention that most people are not mugged every day, that most people in this world do not encounter violence every day. I think we prepare people for violence, and I think it just as important that we prepare people for the definition of being gentle. ... for so many years gentle has been equated with weakness but it requires more strength to be gentle. So it's the every day encounters of life that I think we prepare children for and prepare them to be good to other people and to consider other people.

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

if you learn to hate one or two persons... you'll soon hate millions of people.

There's nothing I love more in life than turning around a bigot.

I don't see how you can grow as a world without being able to get along with people. So many people is hating out there and it's not making a difference.

You can legislate against discrimination, but you can't legislate compassion, understanding and good will.

Racism has a very quick expiration date when exposed to actual contact with people.

If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.

I try to support groups that are about educating people about different races, different religions, different cultures and different situations so that we can break down the barriers of prejudice and bigotry.

We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace.

With all the people hating and hurting each other, I don't understand how people could get upset about people of the same sex caring for each other.

War is not the answer, because only love can conquer hate.

Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.

All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness.

No one is born hating others.

Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.

Many men of science and poets have in their own manner, by various ways and means, and aided by others, sought unceasingly to create a more tolerable world for everyone.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

You can fill this table up with people who are racist, homophobic, Satanist worshippers, sexist and we can be arguing but if you put on a song, I guarantee that people will stop and listen and that's what I love about music, it can bring people together.

Teach my children to love! They'll learn to hate on their own.

I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day.