Melissa Etheridge Quotes

Try and understand--there are views other than yours.

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

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

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.

I'm not asking you to be tolerant of each other. Tolerance is for cowards. Understand each other.

I encourage people and their different points of view.

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.

One of the lines from my books is about having respect for different minds, and if I had to have an epitaph at this point in my life, that would be it.

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

We will accept your beliefs, and will not question why. All we ask is that you accept ours, and live in harmony and peaceful enjoyment with us.

You treat everyone with respect even though you don’t know them and even though you do not agree with them.

I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.

When you connect to someone on a human level, and you get to know about them, you can begin to love the things that make them different.

People's opinions, you've got to respect them.

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.

I can understand that people who have a very different view to mine are motivated by the purest of motives. All I ask is that they might give the same benefit of the doubt to those with whom they might disagree with.

Everybody has their opinion. I respect anything that anybody has to say.

I'm very respectful of people's views. I know that they're deeply held, and I'd like to hope that people are respectful of my deeply held views.

And rather than judging and alienating others, I do think there's an opportunity that no one is taking, myself included, to actually understand why somebody is coming from a certain place.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them. If you allow yourself to be somewhat curious - and if you get into the habit of doing that - it's the first step to being open minded and realizing that your points of view aren't totally opposite.

I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities.

Civility is not about dousing strongly held views. It's about making sure that people are willing to respect other perspectives.

I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.

If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place.

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