Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

I don't want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn't mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

I always think the true test of free speech is when someone says something you don't like.

It's, like, bigots want to embrace me, and I politely take their arms from around my neck. I don't share their views - never have.

I celebrate everyone’s opinion even if I disagree with it.

Christians ought not to persecute one another, and that only for small differences in opinion, when what is right or wrong for the most part remains a doubt and uncertain; whil'st the evils are only certain that such disputes produce.

… what a fearful waste it is that we have to go killing each other before even a difference of opinion can be settled amongst people of the same nation.

You can't expect everyone to agree with you.

Everybody's got their own opinion and their own say. In today's age, everybody wants to be right, so there's people that hate you; there's people that love you.

Respect only has meaning as respect for those with whom I do not agree.

Unfortunately, in some parts of the country, some kids are taught at an early age that being different is somehow bad or wrong or worthy of ridicule.

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

There's nothing I love more in life than turning around a bigot.

Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure.

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.

It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.

Discrimination is not liberal. Arguing against discrimination is not intolerance.

I don't slam doors in people's faces, and I'm not a bigot.

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

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

Racism and discrimination of any kind have no place in football.

No one is born hating others.

I am certainly not racist; I even like the British.

Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.

I'm not homophobic, I'm not a bigot, I'm not pandering to hatred.

When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.