Angelina Jolie Quotes

I remember while I was at school some of my Muslim friends talked about a handful of people spoiling things in every culture. Hatred or hurt or pain isn't specific to a religion. I think it's a matter of acceptance. The one thing the world has to accept is everybody is different. What is normal to us is different and unusual to somebody else.

I don't want people to judge books by their cover, I want people to be open minded to the rest of the world.

I've told you before. You shouldn't judge people based on appearances and your preconceptions.

You don't have to read the Quran to love me... love the actions, love the things that I do. Look at those, and that will help people get beyond whatever fear or stereotypical thing that they might be thinking about.

Basically, we are all different and we all have something to learn and it doesn't mean people need to change who you are but one should be open to new things and, above all, tolerance and understanding are essential for growth and happiness.

A funny thing about tolerant people? They're really only tolerant when you agree with them.

The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge.

Respecting differences is very difficult.

You think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like you. But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger, you'll learn things you never knew you never knew.

I think it just came with me evolving as a person and me understanding that it's not right to judge or to say anything derogatory about other people, especially if I don't know them.

When people sit across from people - gay, straight, whatever - and they talk, they find out that people they may have been demonizing for their lifetime aren't the demons we've expected them to be.

I've learned a lot just being around people who grew up so differently from me, which is cool. It teaches you how to be a lot more tolerant. The bigger your world is, the more tolerant and accepting you become, because you have friends from all walks of life. You learn to be a little bit less selfish.

To judge someone before understanding that person is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself. It intensifies personal insecurities, necessitating more judgment (prejudice) and less understanding. The processes continue in this vicious cycle.

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

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

It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad.

I try to look for the good in everybody, regardless of the way they're labeled.

Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies.

To help keep diversity a wellspring of strength and make America a better place for all, I pledge to have respect for people whose abilities, beliefs, culture, race, sexual identity or other characteristics are different from my own.

Racism has a very quick expiration date when exposed to actual contact with people.

Sometimes, there isn't respect for our ways, but you can't change people.

We must create a climate where people agree that human beings are more alike than unalike. The only way to do that is through education.

I don't want to judge anybody by wherever they go.

People need to learn to take everyone as they are.