John Hope Franklin Quotes

Knowledge of other people's beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts.

The world is a diverse place. Nobody has a monopoly on virtue or wisdom.

It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.

I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

We have to realize only in communication, in real knowledge, in real reaching out, can there be an understanding that there's humanity everywhere, and that's what I'm trying to do.

Education is the only solution for peace.

Believing in each culture's right to be understood by the other party without any form of falseness or distortion is paramount.

Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another.

People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.

We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations, we should do so with compassion.

My experience of living with people of diverse religions and cultures taught me that one will never be at peace with the other if one is at war with oneself.

I think understanding is the way to gain perspective - and therefore can live among those hideous realities. You can live with them.

We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

People don't hassle me. It's always very friendly anywhere in the world.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.

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

Anyone can be tolerant of those who are tolerant.

Interacting with Indian children was so fulfilling. They are so affectionate. Every school I've visited, I've been overwhelmed by the enthusiasm and love they've showered me with!

We've had so many lifetimes of different cultures and different religions and different points of view and different wars and different loves and different children.

We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.

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