Intolerance, unfortunately, tends to become a big deal. It ends up with no one being able to say anything that might be construed as offensive.
In an affluent local town, a PTA had a “winter” party and the organizers stipulated that no greeting with a religious meaning was to be used, and no students was to wear red and green.
Intolerance, unfortunately, tends to become a big deal. It ends up with no one being able to say anything that might be construed as offensive.
Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil ... a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment.
Tolerance applies only to persons ... never to truth.
America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance — it is not.
It is suffering from tolerance.
Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos.
Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded.
"A Plea For Intolerance" (1931)
Bishop Fulton J. Sheen