Jim Clyburn Quotes

I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.

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.

Throughout my work is the idea, over and over, that we must all learn to respect one another.

We must learn that we can disagree with each other without becoming deadly enemies.

That differences of race, color, and creed are natural, and that diverse groups, institutions, and ideas are stimulating factors in the development of man; That to promote harmony in diversity is a responsible task of religion and statesmanship; That since no individual can express the whole truth, it is essential to treat with understanding and good will those whose views differ from our own; That by the testimony of history intolerance is the door to violence, brutality and dictatorship; and That the realization of human interdependence and solidarity is the best guard of civilization.

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.

I'm not asking you to be tolerant of each other. Tolerance is for cowards. Understand each other.

Everybody is a human being. We should be able to coexist with one another.

Our differences needn't divide us, but unity takes work.

Embrace the humanity of everyone, especially those you don't understand.

Yet even differences prove helpful, where there are tolerance, charity and Truth.

Respecting differences is very difficult.

Life with another person is always difficult.

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

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

You don't always necessarily see eye to eye with the people that you are getting married into you, so you really have to learn to open your mind, open your heart and be super compassionate about other people's points of view, faith and opinions.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.

You can be for someone without being against someone else.

Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.

Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines.

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

It is my goal to love everyone. I hate no one. Regardless of their race, religion, their proclivities, the desire of their heart and how they want to live their life and the decisions that they make. I can even respect people's decisions and lifestyle choices just as I hope they have the courtesy to respect my decisions and my choices.

We will not agree on every issue. But let us respect those differences and respect one another. Let us recognize that we do not serve an ideology or a political party; we serve the people.