Edward James Olmos Quotes

Speech, not violence, is how we will bridge the divides between us.

The more we can get together and talk about various perspectives, feelings, beliefs, the better.

I must believe that in words we will find what in fury we cannot.

Can we all get along?

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.

Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another

We need to stop treating our opponents as our enemies.

The good people of this world are very far from being satisfied with each other & my arms are the best peacemakers.

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.

Once you have dialogue starting, you know you can break down prejudice.

Let's choose to hear one another out.

But when you meet with the enemy and genuinely try to understand his or her perspective, you lose the enemy as a political tool. And that's the eternal obstacle.

We're so divided as a world that we don't often have the opportunity to sit down and talk to people who are different to us. We're so ready to always be right that we sometimes forget it's OK to listen.

When people express opinions that differ from yours, take it as a chance to grow. Seek to understand over being understood. Be curious, not defensive. The only way to disarm another human being is by listening.

It's always easier to dismiss other people than to go through the awkward and time consuming process of understanding them.

I fear that we are living in a society, living in a world where forgiving people is becoming more and more difficult to do.

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.

People, I just want to say, can we all get along? Can we get along?

I've undoubtedly offended people, but in the end, I've learned the people that will understand are the people I want to connect to, anyway.

I don't feel bitterness, I don't feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

As peacemakers, we must resist all the powers of war and destruction and proclaim that peace is the divine gift offered to all who affirm life. Resistance means saying 'No' to all the forces of death, wherever they may be.

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