Quotes About Tolerance

If a profound gulf separates my neighbor’s belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart – the best brain.

Nobody ever helps me into carriages or over mud puddles, or gives me any best place. And ain’t I a woman? Look at me! I have ploughed and planted and gathered into barns and no man could head me. And ain’t I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man – when I could get it – and hear the lash as well. And ain’t I a woman> I have borne thirteen children and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mothers’ grief, none but Jesus heard me. And ain’t I a woman?

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal.”

“All men are created equal.” “Government by consent of the governed.” “Give me liberty or give me death.” And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.