Maya Angelou Quotes

If you're talking about coexisting and tolerance then you have to live by example, and you can't have shiny people all the time everywhere, which is what breeds that sort of thinking - this is better than this, that is better than that.

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

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

Anyone can be tolerant of those who are tolerant.

We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people.

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.

It's just better to promote love and fairness and equality than it is to promote something you think is based on your religious beliefs.

We believe that we should spread wide the mantle of justice and benevolence and embrace the different religious communities with mercy and compassion. Measures to improve conditions should include Muslims and non-Muslims alike, who should be provided everything they might hope for in the way of peace and security.

Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding and mutual respect.

God does not discriminate against people, regardless of color, religion, social class, or gender and sexual preferences.

The more we can treat people equally, the more likely they are to treat each other equally.

Aren't we all human? Don't we all deserve to be respected and treated equally?

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.

We call for the end of bigotry as we know it. The end of racism as we know it. The end of child abuse in the family as we know it. The end of sexism as we know it. The end of homophobia as we know it. We stand for freedom as we have yet to know it. And we will not be denied.

God's love doesn't leave out Jews or Muslims or anyone.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

The very moment you understand that being a Muslim and being American or European are not mutually exclusive, you enrich your society. Promote the universal principles of justice and freedom, and leave the societies elsewhere to find their model of democracy based on their collective psychology and cultural heritage.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.

Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.

The new republic should be based on diversity, respect and equal rights for all.

I believe that... every one of God's creatures was created equal. I believe that everyone should be treated equal, that's the way I was raised and that's the way I live my life.

What this denomination stands for is, really, is the universal vision of all people being treated fairly under the law as God sees us in His sight.