Karen Armstrong Quotes

And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

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

We must display a heart for every American, and a special passion for those still on the first rung of life's ladder.

From afar, I have cried watching my nation, sore with prejudice, slowly heal itself. I hurt along with America, my phantom pains only alleviated by work I do every day - art.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society.

All religions teach the same basic thing, that you have to stand up for those that are considered the worst.

If we want to change this culture of hate and bigotry, every one of us must stand up and speak with one voice to condemn it, because an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us.

The strongest, richest, greatest nation in the world shouldn't leave anyone behind.

I believe in people, and you don't need to be a feminist for that.

I think that the message of inclusion is something a lot of people believe in and want to see succeed.

We should continue all the time to look out for those who have less, to stand for those who can't, to reach out across differences, to use our land intelligently, to open our borders and welcome those who seek harbour, and never, ever cease to be curious, ask questions, and to explore and search.

A just society is not one built on fear or repression or vengeance or exclusion, but one built on love. Love for our families. Love for our neighbors. Love for the least among us. Love for those who look different or worship differently. Love for those we don't even know.

My view of Christianity is that the hallmark of being a Christian is to reach out to people who have been left behind. So I think there was a religious aspect to my decision to support civil unions.

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

I am passionate about human rights.

I like to give a voice to others, especially things neglected or despised.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.

We can be more inclusive.

It's no longer good enough for us to tell kids who are different that it's gonna get better. We have to make it better now.

We, as Americans, do our level best to avoid being cruel to one another; we're led out of a diverse nation to come together and learn how to live with one another in a way that elevates everyone and our way of life. We've tried mightily to renew and imagine - imagine anew what it means to be free, what it means to be fair.

Our soft hearts are what tell us that, whatever the circumstances of birth, everyone must be given opportunities to do well.

The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.