Ryan Murphy Quotes

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.

We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions.

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

A healthy state encourages many voices - and lots of listening.

What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.

We must win the common people in every corner. This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behaviour, show, condescention, popularity, and toleration of their prejudices, which we shall at leisure root out and dispel

To achieve progress in the face of adversity, we need a genuine commitment to gaining a deeper understanding of humanity. I'd like to see a world with more leaders who are familiar with the depths of the views of those they deeply disagree with, so that they can understand the nuances of everyone they're representing.

I want the Congress to become an instrument for dialogue among the Indian people - all of us, from all corners of our great country, all religions, all ethnicities, all ages, genders and people - and for our dialogue to always be led by love and affection.

One of my messages to Republicans is very simple: One-third of your schedule should be listening to people in minority communities.

It's important for people to give every leader the chance to step forward and look for ways to have dialogue.

And rather than judging and alienating others, I do think there's an opportunity that no one is taking, myself included, to actually understand why somebody is coming from a certain place.

We can focus on differences that divide us, or we can choose to listen and learn from each other's experiences.

When people sit across from people - gay, straight, whatever - and they talk, they find out that people they may have been demonizing for their lifetime aren't the demons we've expected them to be.

You don't get unity by ignoring the questions that have to be faced.

As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don't want to be taught lessons, and I don't want to be spoken down to. I want to be treated as a peer and to be made to feel welcome.

Sometimes we are separated by differences, and sometimes we are united by common ideals of respect and compassion.

We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around.

I mean I think children love the idea that there are different viewpoints and different words for things and different worlds. And the more that they pretend to be other people, the harder it is for them to hate them and misunderstand them when they grow up.

What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.

Let's not demonize people who don't happen to agree with us.

What we need in the United States is not division. What we need in the United States is not hatred. What we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness, but love and wisdom and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country whether they be white or they be black.

Equal opportunity does not come from tolerance; it comes from acceptance.

You can legislate against discrimination, but you can't legislate compassion, understanding and good will.

I celebrate everyone’s opinion even if I disagree with it.

Tolerance is common sense in a pluralistic society.