Nell Scovell Quotes

Liberals allow right-wingers on their platforms to have a 'civilized discussion,' but there's no reasoning with racists. I don't want them to have a platform that humanizes them. I want to talk down to them and meet them exactly where they are, with absolutely no respect.

I'm trying to make the world a more open place.

Let's not demonize people who don't happen to agree with us.

Free speech should never mean hate speech.

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

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

I suspect that no community will become humane and caring by restricting what its members can say.

I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.

My friendships and relationships in the conservative world are not predicated on political correctness and enforced conformity of thought. They are based, instead, on mutual respect, honesty and understanding - concepts many modern liberals should consider revisiting.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

Political correctness is as exploitable as any other progressive ideal, but its aim is to stifle the incessant noise of those who flap their careless lips without a thought about those they might offend and why that might be important.

I am absolutely opposed to political correctness. You cannot confront hate speech until you've experienced it. You need to hear every side of the issue instead of just one.

Everybody's opinion is equally valid, and I feel like everybody should have an opportunity to speak out, and everyone should have the courage to speak out.

The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself.

All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness.

I'm in the civil discourse business. I think it takes all kinds. And more power to everybody.

You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.

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

I think tolerance is something everybody needs to be reminded of, especially in a reactionary political world. Well, actually, I should say, a reactionary political climate.

Throughout my many years of service to the people of North Carolina, I have always tried to treat people from all viewpoints with respect.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.

I come from a very non-accepting family, but I'm very accepting.

Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

In my heart, I really don't care who you love, same sex or not; as long as you have the ability to love, that's the important thing here.