INTOLERANCE

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“Do nothing out of contentiousness, or out of egotism, but with humility consider others as superior to you, as you look out not only for your own interests, but also for the interests of others.” – Apostle Paul – Phil 2:3,4 – The BIBLE

Of all religions, the Christian should, of course, inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men. – Voltaire

I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted. – Frederick Douglass

I always have been on the side of the heretics, against those who burned them, because the heretics so often turned out to be right….Dead, but right. – Edward R. Murrow

There is no king that has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. – Helen Keller

“I know a way out of hell.  Find a child, a child whose mother and father have been killed, a little boy about this high, and raise him as your own. Only be sure he is a Muslim, and raise him as one.” – Ben Kingsley as Gandhi to a Hindu murderer. – GANDHI – John Briley (Screenplay)

Whenever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. – Heinrich Heine

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat. – Martin Luther King Jr.      

“Misery has to hide itself in silence—or it becomes treason.” – Victor Hugo – THE MAN WHO LAUGHS

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. – Maya Angelou

As I would not be a slave, I would not be a master.  This expresses my idea of democracy. – Abraham Lincoln

The Holocaust is the most extreme version of the rootless race hate in European history.  Classic European anti-Semitism was based more on the idea that Jews had killed Christ and were engaged in anti-European philosophy and financial conspiracy than on any measurable harm to Europe.  No one could point to any Jewish massacres of Christians.” – Thomas Keneally (Writer) – SCHLINDLER’S LIST                             

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. – Mohandas Gandhi

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true design. – Denis Diderot        

Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. – Ronald Reagan

Is it possible for a bigoted intolerant person to be happy? – Gary Pulliam

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“And he made out of one nation every nation of men to dwell on the entire surface of the earth, and he decreed the appointed times and the set limits of where men should dwell, so that they would seek God, if they might grope for him and really find him, although, in fact, he is not far off from each one of us.” – Apostle Paul – Acts 17:26,27 – writer Luke – The BIBLE

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. – Aristotle

Without forgiveness there is no future. – Desmond Tutu

“How ironic!  Just a few years after the military began encouraging gay soldiers to “ask” and to “tell,” it now insists that “Christian” soldiers not proclaim their faith too loudly. The stated purpose of political correctness is to make us a fairer and more tolerant society.  But in reality it has promoted institutional intolerance of traditional ideas and views.  As a result, many people of faith are being pushed into that same closet that everyone else has been invited to leave.” – Based on Gary Bauer’s article in USA Today. – President of American Values and chairman of the Campaigning for Working Families.  5-09-2013

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. – Edmund Burke

There is little hope for democracy if the hearts of men and women cannot be touched by a call to something greater than themselves. – Margaret Thatcher

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding. – Mohandas Gandhi

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires that same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle. – Helen Keller

Europe has pursued ant-Semitism consistently since the Middle ages and has yet to repent of it. - Thomas Keneally (Writer) - Excerpts - SCHLINDLER’S LIST - 1993

I’ve learned that being kind is more important than being right. – Andy Rooney                      Anger is not only inevitable, it is necessary. Its absence means indifference, the most disastrous of all human failings. – Arthur Ponsomby

It is far easier to forgive an enemy after you have gotten even with them. – Olin Miller

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities, has the power to make you commit injustices. – Voltaire

When atheists claim to be ‘offended’ by the mere existence of silent prayer being allowed in the classroom, then all prayer is summarily censored in all schools, whether any atheists are present or not.  These offended parties are never told to be more tolerant or to develop respect for the opinions of others.  Any person of faith is routinely portrayed as old-fashioned or anti-intellectual.  This has always been a sign of the collapse of a culture. – Gary Pulliam

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“For though I am free from all people, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I may gain as many people as possible.  To the Jews, I became a Jew, in order to gain Jews, to those under law I became as under law, though I myself am not under law, in order to gain those under law.” – Apostle Paul – 1 Cor. 9:19,20 – The BIBLE

There is little room left for wisdom when one is full of judgment. – Malcolm Hein

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehoodso established, that unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. – Blaise Pascal

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends with them? – Abraham Lincoln

Whatever begins in anger ends in shame. – Winston Churchill

More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion. – Alexander Chase

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. – Frederick Dougless               

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. – Helen Keller

“The underlying responsibility of the Holocaust lies not with Europe as Thomas Kennealy asserts, it lies with the churches—yes, organized religion—because they failed teach and to act on the truth.  They turned their backs on what was really happening.  They could have helped prevent it in the first place.” – Gary Pulliam (Personal viewpoint) - RACISM ON TRIAL : AN INDICTMENT OF WAR - (1994)                                                        

The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post. – Thomas Holcroft                

Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything. – Alexander Hamilton

He who is not a good servant will not be a good master. – Plato             

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. – George Bernard Shaw

The most destructive criticism is indifference. – E. W. Howe

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. – Napoleon Bonaparte

‘They’ insisted that our schools must boot God out, and rely on ‘Junior’s’ intelligence.  So we graduated a generation of juniors with refined intellects and undisciplined emotions—so school age suicides soared 92% in the last two years! – Paul Harvey                      

You can’t change the past but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future. – Right on

Once you attempt legislation on religious grounds, you open the way for every kind intolerance and persecution. – William Butler Yeats

Political correctness shuts us up. – Glenn Beck

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“For God loved the world so much that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that everyone exercising faith in him might not be destroyed but have everlasting life.” – Jesus Christ – John 3:16 – Writer Apostle John – The BIBLE

Intolerance – The unwillingness to accept views, beliefs, or behavior different from one’s own, or to be narrow-minded or bigoted. – WEBSTER’S DICTIONARY – (Partial definition)

The highest result of education is tolerance. – Helen Keller

Intolerance is the most socially accepted form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personally boasting – Sydney J. Harris

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one’s cause. – Mohandas Gandhi

“German’s themselves are grappling with a conflict about this (the Holocaust) among their historians—how to fit this unique event into German history, into the German and European imagination.” – Thomas Keneally (Author} – SCHLINDLER’S LIST                     

To tolerate everything is to teach nothing. – F. J. Kinsman

A Fascist is one who’s lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him either ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain to his end. – Henry A. Wallace

Travel teaches tolerance. – Benjamin Disraeli

Saudi Arabia inflames the Sunni-Shiite divide and sets a pernicious example by banning churches. – Nicholas Kristof

There’s a generation of children who don’t like black and white movies.  There’s a level of impatience and intolerance now. – Peter Jackson

I’ve seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If Woody Allen was a Muslim, he’d be dead by now. – Salman Rushdie

There is a place in the world for satire, but there’s a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begin. – Isaac Hayes    

It is tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of dividing and squabbling. – Pierre Bayle

The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.  – Princess Diana

People feed hate by using dehumanizing names such as nigger, kraut, guck, spec, whap and savage. – Anonymous