Tolerance - Bigotry, Free Love

Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. […] If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there. (Gene Roddenberry)
Sometimes I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me. (Zora Neale Hurston)

When I was in the military, they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one. (Leonard Matlovich)

All cruelty springs from weakness. (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

The state has no place in the nation's bedrooms. (Pierre Trudeau)

If you have bright plumage, people will take pot shots at you. (Alan Clark)

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. (Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)

There's no race, no religion, no class system, no color, nothing, no sexual orientation that makes us better than anyone else. We are all deserving of love. (Sandra Bullock)

In all my work, my thing has always been not to be ashamed of who you are, your body, your physicality, your desires, your sexual fantasies. The reason there is bigotry, sexism, racism, and homophobia is fear. People are afraid of their own feelings, afraid of the unknown and I am saying: don't be afraid. (Madonna)

Fear leads to Anger, Anger leads to Hate, Hate leads to Suffering. (Yoda)

I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that. (Eminem)

There is nothing in the whole world so painful as feeling that one is not liked. It always seems to me that people who hate me must be suffering from some strange form of lunacy. (Sei Shōnagon)

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. (Hermann Hesse)

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. (Nelson Mandela)

All throughout history — both human and American — there have been people who didn’t fit into whatever the norms were of that time. In time, the norms change, and we change with them. Gay people certainly know what I’m talking about here. And maybe it’s time we all try to let go of all the rest. Who cares if someone is poly, or gay, or bisexual, or asexual, or, or, or, or. Who cares... Well, I’m going to try and not be uncomfortable by the way anyone lives their sexual lives. I still don’t get rooting for the Yankees and Eagles, but one thing at a time (Jeff Edelstein, columnist at The Trentonian)

Love and do what you will. (St. Augustine of Hippo)

The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, and sometimes three. (Alexandre Dumas)

Tolerance is the one essential ingredient. (Prince Phillip)

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. (Jane Austen)

We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. (Karl Popper)

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character. (Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.)

If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear. (Gene Roddenberry)