Rick Mercer Quotes

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

I believe in people, and you don't need to be a feminist for that.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Now is not the time for us to shy away from challenging ourselves to make substantive change for the better. We have the opportunity to raise the bar in the faith-based world by forging a culture in which inclusivity, diversity, and equality are paramount.

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If we want to change this culture of hate and bigotry, every one of us must stand up and speak with one voice to condemn it, because an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us.

I connect deeply with SAVE's mission and I realize it doesn't matter which specific group you're fighting for, that everyone deserves equality, everyone deserves safety, and everyone deserves to be able to live their lives free of hate, fear and discrimination.

I think that the message of inclusion is something a lot of people believe in and want to see succeed.

We must celebrate difference until difference doesn't make a difference in the way we treat each other.

Most of all, we should remember all of us are capable of individually helping advance the spirit of equality for all.

I am passionate about human rights.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

When I have kids, when I have a family and nieces and nephews, I'm gonna teach them to love more and be kinder and to not judge someone by the colour of their skin or any other thing.

Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.

And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.

We can be more inclusive.

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.'

When all of us are acknowledged as the human equals that we really are, there will be no space left for bullying. It will no longer be wrong to choose one thing over another.

All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness.

No matter what vision one has of South Africa, the first thing that must be done is to destroy racism.

God calls all of his children to the table. We can disagree and even say a lot of hateful things, but what we can't do in good conscience is leave the table. Or demand that someone else not be at the table.

I'm trying to create the world around myself to be a place of as much equality and openheartedness as possible.

We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society.