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"Without demolishing religious schools (madrassahs) and minarets and without abandoning the beliefs and ideas of the medieval age, restriction in thoughts and pains in conscience will not end. Without understanding that unbelief is a kind of religion, and that conservative religious belief a kind of disbelief, and without showing tolerance to opposite ideas, one cannot succeed. Those who look for the truth will accomplish the mission."
"The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything."
"Peace does not demand that everyone like or want the same reality."
"It's okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn't give you the right to deny any sense they might make. Nor does it give you a right to accuse someone of poorly expressing their beliefs just because you don't like what they are saying. Learn to recognize good writing when you read it, even if it means overcoming your pride and opening your mind beyond what is comfortable."
"Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private."
"The doctrinal differences between Hinduism and Buddhism and Taoism are not anywhere near as important as doctrinal differences among Christianity and Islam and Judaism. Holy wars are not fought over them because verbalized statements about reality are never presumed to be reality itself."
Explore more quotes by Helen Keller
"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."
"I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace."
"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."
"When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another."
"Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see."
"We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings."
"No pessimist discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit."
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