Maajid Nawaz Quotes

Honestly, I just have to do what's right for me, and what I would tell people is what I believe, which is that tolerance is very important.

I have friends who are black, white, purple, gay, straight, Martian, yellow, old, and young. I have friends who are animals and a few who I believe to be robots. All of them are people to me. In my mind, it's not about what you look like or what you do; it's about who you are inside.

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.

I am committed to examining my feelings and will recognize, appreciate and respect the differences among people in our society.

I'm not against anybody. I'm really not. I'm not a hater. I'm not homophobic. I honestly don't care what people do personally in their individual lives.

I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.

I love the fact that so many of my readers are intelligent, exceptional, accomplished people with an open-minded love of diversity.

Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization.

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

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

One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

It is my goal to love everyone. I hate no one. Regardless of their race, religion, their proclivities, the desire of their heart and how they want to live their life and the decisions that they make. I can even respect people's decisions and lifestyle choices just as I hope they have the courtesy to respect my decisions and my choices.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Learning to live with offence is the price of living in a diverse society.

That differences of race, color, and creed are natural, and that diverse groups, institutions, and ideas are stimulating factors in the development of man; That to promote harmony in diversity is a responsible task of religion and statesmanship; That since no individual can express the whole truth, it is essential to treat with understanding and good will those whose views differ from our own; That by the testimony of history intolerance is the door to violence, brutality and dictatorship; and That the realization of human interdependence and solidarity is the best guard of civilization.

Discrimination still exists. Some people feel that their own beliefs are being threatened. Some are unhappy about unfamiliar cultures. They all need to be reassured that there is so much to be gained by reaching out to others; that diversity is indeed a strength and not a threat.

Nothing inspires greater tolerance from the intolerant than an abundance of common and unifying beliefs, practices, rituals, institutions, and processes.

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.

I've been in enough positions to respect people with different views.

I think for me, as a gay person, I can convince a lot more people to be for gay marriage by not screaming at them and berating them and embarrassing them and belittling them, but by showing them that we're all exactly the same.

For me, I try to live life every day by getting to know people for who they are and learning from them.

What I do is I always try to educate myself about my neighbors, about the people I meet.

Anyone is welcome to hang out with me and have fun or sit down with me and talk. I don't discriminate against anyone. And I don't condone hating someone or treating them badly because they live differently than I do.

In everything I do, I want people to get the message of acceptance, to learn not to practice contempt without investigation. I have an obligation to do it.

We, as a society, need to be open-minded.