Steven Erikson Quotes

When you have reached your own room, be kind to those Who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall.

You can be for someone without being against someone else.

I want a world where everything is welcome, everything is valid, everything is acknowledged, embraced, and accepted. To me, that's a perfect world.

We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

I think we should all be tolerant of each other and embrace each others' strengths and differences and uniqueness and beauty.

I come from a family where we were taught to love and respect every community and religion.

Teach children tolerance. No one need surrender his or her own beliefs while extending tolerance to those with other beliefs.

We [people] need to stop lumping folks together and start living together. Otherwise, we're going to kill each other off because you don't believe what I believe. That's crazy.

Respecting differences is very difficult.

I have never altered my feelings towards individuals, as men or as women, whether they believe as I do or not. Can you live as neighbors with me? I can with you; and it is no particular concern of mine whether you believe with me or not.

HELPED are those who love all the colors of all the human beings, as they love all the colors of the animals and plants; none of their children, nor any of their ancestors, nor any parts of themselves, shall be hidden from them.

We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

It is our responsibility to find God in someone who is different from us. I think that God basically says, 'I created diversity on purpose, and it is your responsibility to figure out how to make it work.'

What I loved the most about Oakland was that all of my neighbors came in as many colors, ideas, and religions as there are people on the planet. How lucky I was to know so many people that were so different and yet so much alike!

Dear sisters and brothers, I am not against anyone.

The value of tolerance is central to living in today's world - especially in diverse places like the Bronx.

Different people have different opinions, and it's okay to respect all of them.

Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.

There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man.

Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

I think my politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.

You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.

We have to believe that we can hold different points of view without labeling each other bad feminists.