“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corn cribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” ~~ Atticus Finch in Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird”
Tolerance
“One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.” ~~ Jane Austen
“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education.” ~~ Charlotte Bronte
“I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.” ~~ Scout Finch in Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird”, Chapter 23
“Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend. ” ~~ Mao Tse-Tung
“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. ” ~~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated.” ~~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Tolerance without dialogue is a euphemism for indifference.” ~~ Count Miklós Cseszneky de Milvány
Submitted by Denis.
“They’re certainly entitled to think that, and they’re entitled to full respect for their opinions … but before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.” ~~ Atticus Finch in Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird”, Chapter 11
