Dianne Rehm Quotes

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.

There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also.

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

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

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

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

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

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

We're so divided as a world that we don't often have the opportunity to sit down and talk to people who are different to us. We're so ready to always be right that we sometimes forget it's OK to listen.

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.

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

Just because people think politically different to you doesn't mean they're inhuman.

I like to think that I'm nonjudgmental, that I can listen and be engaged by almost anything.

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

We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions.

I think my politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.

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

One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

If it's right and true, it's listened to and accommodated.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

Our civilization is becoming less civil. You don’t have the right to demonize somebody just because they disagree with you.

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 not think alike to love alike.

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.

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