Betsy DeVos 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.

One of the things my father taught me was you should not exclude those who are opposed to your ideas.

Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.

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

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

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

We can come from our own particular point of view and lay it down. We should not be throwing verbal rocks at each other. We're all responsible to continue the growth of Hip Hop.

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

Until we learn to honor and respect what other people believe, I think we are doomed.

Tolerance is common sense in a pluralistic society.

That differences of race, color, and creed are natural, and that diverse groups, institutions, and ideas are stimulating factors in the development of man; That to promote harmony in diversity is a responsible task of religion and statesmanship; That since no individual can express the whole truth, it is essential to treat with understanding and good will those whose views differ from our own; That by the testimony of history intolerance is the door to violence, brutality and dictatorship; and That the realization of human interdependence and solidarity is the best guard of civilization.

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

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

Think about how our country was built. The greatness came from our diversity; the greatness came from individuals with different perspectives coming together.

We develop sentiments that we are only going to work with people like us. But you don't build up a nation by working with people like you. You overcome a history of conflict by reaching out to people very much unlike you.

Everyone needs to understand that we were meant to live together in this country. We have to get to know one another; even if we don't agree, we have to enable each side to express itself.

I am tolerant. I want to understand other points of view.

Our differences needn't divide us, but unity takes work.

Embrace the humanity of everyone, especially those you don't understand.

You can have your own thought process about things, but you still need to include and co-exist with other people.

It's important for people to give every leader the chance to step forward and look for ways to have dialogue.

No matter if someone has personal feelings about my sexuality or how they view me, it's all of our job to continue to show up in spaces where we can say, 'You know what? I can figure out how to try to work with you.'

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

However, it must always remain a dialogue, and never an imposition of the church's own convictions and methods. Propose, not impose. To serve, and not to dominate.

I want our students to be so accustomed to children of other cultures that the words 'diversity' and 'tolerance' won't be in their vocabulary. They won't need them - they'll live it.