Acceptance of Different Perspectives Quotes

I'm all for free speech, and I don't need my viewpoint to be the only viewpoint.

Tolerance of true diversity on university campuses - diversity of opinion and belief - has been eroding for decades while alumni and trustees looked the other way.

Keeping an open mind is always important.

You can't convince people of certain things. You let them think what they want to think.

I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.

You've got to ensure that the holders of an opinion, however unpopular, are allowed to put across their points of view.

However firmly thou holdest to thy opinions, if truth appears on the opposite side, throw down thy arms at once.

If I am doing a certain kind of cinema, that does not mean I hate the other kind.

As one of my teachers, Buckminster Fuller, says, we were given a right foot and a left foot, not a right foot and a wrong foot. The point is that, there's always two points of view out there, and we need to increase our ability to allow another point of view. Then we have a better chance for peace.

If people feel strongly and passionately about something, I'll let them speak strongly and passionately - I'm not going to tell them not to.

If anyone tells you there is only one way, their way, get as far away from them as possible, both physically and philosophically.

There is a place in America for diversity of views and opinions. I may cook my gumbo differently from you, but that does not make mine better. I may just use different ingredients. Politics has gotten so spicy, and we need to cool it down some. We may find that your recipe for gumbo is just as good.

If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.

It's not appropriate to pass judgment when we specifically ask people to voice their opinions... even if you ask a question and agree with the answer.