Anthony J. D'Angelo Quotes

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

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.

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

I just want to open people's eyes to different things.

We can focus on differences that divide us, or we can choose to listen and learn from each other's experiences.

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

Tolerance can lead to learning something.

As one of my teachers, Buckminster Fuller, says, we were given a right foot and a left foot, not a right foot and a wrong foot. The point is that, there's always two points of view out there, and we need to increase our ability to allow another point of view. Then we have a better chance for peace.

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.

Communication starts with the understanding that there is my point of view (my truth) and someone else's point of view (his truth). Rarely is there one absolute truth, so people who believe that they speak the truth are very silencing of others.

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.

We still have a lot of work to do in American culture. More open-mindedness is happening - in some cases rapidly, in some, slowly.

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

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

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

The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.

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.

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

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

Hear the other side.

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

One of the lines from my books is about having respect for different minds, and if I had to have an epitaph at this point in my life, that would be it.

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.

We've known for a long time, and I think culturally we've accepted, that diversity is an important thing in the work of knowledge.