“Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.”
Timothy Keller
“Respectful communication under conflict or opposition is an essential and truly awe-inspiring ability.”
Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
My thoughts:
Everyone deserves our respect, kindness and empathy. Not because of how they treat us or don't treat us, not because of anything they do, say or believe, but because we are all here together and if we do not give respect, kindness, and empathy to others we have no right to expect it for ourselves.
If we do not listen to people we disagree with we cannot expect them to listen to us. We all know what it is like trying to talk to someone who has already decided they know what we are saying and has prejudged it without ever really listening to us. It feels like talking to a wall.
It doesn't work to ask other people to take the risk and go out of their comfort zone to listen deeply if we keep our wall up and shut them down when they speak. We have to be listeners before we can expect to be heard.
Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
Thomas Paine
“We should all consider each other as human beings, and we should respect each other.”
Malala Yousafzai
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