Rand Paul Quotes

For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.

You can be for someone without being against someone else.

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.

I don't think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.

The great American tradition is one of pluralism, not exclusive secularism. The strength of our country is reflected in the contributions that we all make to the common good.

The one peace possible: A homeland for everybody.

We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don't make us weak. They're the source of our strength.

A Christian, a Deist, a Turk, and a Jew, have equal rights: they are men and brethren.

Americans honor and respect each other's faith, and we honor those that choose to have no faith.

This world belongs to all of us, and all sexes should be able to live in respect and harmony.

We must learn to live together, and the framework of Zionism must know how to include everyone.

I respect people of all sexualities; I respect people of all religions, all faiths. I love all Australians.

I'm human. As human as any Indian. And every Pakistani is as human as every Indian.

If tolerance is the best we can do in this moment, then by all means let's be tolerant. But by stopping there, by merely tolerating each other, we miss so much.

We want to counter the idea that Muslims and non-Muslims can't live together. This is not who we are or who we want to be.

Britain is an amazing multicultural place to live in, and that should be celebrated and represented.

Let's not fantasize about having a world of only trans people or only of LGBTQ people. Let's fantasize about a world in which we all can co-exist and where there is just talent that recognizes talent.

Acceptance is the only thing you should teach. Be it Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Dalit, you must inculcate acceptance, not tolerance.

If we're gonna get past our our racial differences, it's gonna come from our kids, but they have to be together to do that.

Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.

Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.

Yet even differences prove helpful, where there are tolerance, charity and Truth.

Our way of living together in America is a strong but delicate fabric. It is made up of many threads. It has been woven over many centuries by the patience and sacrifice of countless liberty-loving men and women. It serves as a cloak for the protection of poor and rich, of black and white, of Jew and Gentile, of foreign and native born. Let us not tear it asunder. For no man knows, once it is destroyed, where or when man will find its protective warmth again.

We are all one. Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

We must see the pluralism of the world, and not bind it by seeking common denominators.