Mark Takano Quotes

We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society.

What we need in the United States is not division. What we need in the United States is not hatred. What we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness, but love and wisdom and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country whether they be white or they be black.

Compassion, hope, and opportunity are some of the most fundamentally American values that we should fight like hell to protect.

And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.

The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah.

We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people.

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

Being a parent to my daughters, son to my parents, and friends to many people, I would wish for a society that's fair to everyone, that's free of prejudice and as non-divisive as possible.

In just my own neighborhood, you can't go one block without seeing a sign that says, you know, 'Everyone's welcome here,' 'Refugees are welcome here.' I love my Muslim neighbors, and so there is truly this spirit of generosity and compassion and openness that still exists.

I just think bad vibes and hate and Trump are getting so much airtime, we need to speak out loud for peace and equality and fairness and make sure we all know that there are a lot of us out here in the world that just want love.

My purpose is to unite people, to bring us together. And above all, to be a champion for justice and a vehement opponent of oppression and justice.

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it's gonna happen.

The people of Canada have worked hard to build a country that opens its doors to include all, regardless of their differences; a country that respects all, regardless of their differences; a country that demands equality for all, regardless of their differences.

Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.

Tolerance is the value that was selected to put on here, and tolerance is as American as apple pie.

In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.

I believe that... every one of God's creatures was created equal. I believe that everyone should be treated equal, that's the way I was raised and that's the way I live my life.

The motive power of democracy is love.

We can be more inclusive.

The value of tolerance is central to living in today's world - especially in diverse places like the Bronx.

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

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

We're a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we're all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that's a marvelous thing.