Angela Rye Quotes

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

I want there to be a level of respect between everybody.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another

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

At the end of the day, we can talk about anything but we have to be respectful.

Ultimately, being open and respectful towards each other is much more powerful as a way to diffuse hatred and anger than, you know, layering on, you know, big walls and oppressive policies.

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

I think it is important that we rebuild an atmosphere of forgiveness and civility in every aspect of our lives.

Anyone can be tolerant of those who are tolerant.

Respect for the rights of others means peace.

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

Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

We should learn to live and love our neighbors as ourselves for the sake of peace and progress.

I definitely feel we're moving forward. There's a lot more understanding... there's less fear and we're working on there being less hatred.

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

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

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.

We need to stop treating our opponents as our enemies.

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

To achieve progress in the face of adversity, we need a genuine commitment to gaining a deeper understanding of humanity. I'd like to see a world with more leaders who are familiar with the depths of the views of those they deeply disagree with, so that they can understand the nuances of everyone they're representing.

I think that we all got to have respect for each other. And we could all be more careful with the things we say.

I just try to be respectful of everybody.