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1 " Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which - grounded as it was in the Quranic injunction, " Let there be no compulsion in religion" (2:256) - is arguably the first mandate for religious tolerance in human history. "
2 " Religious unity and religious tolerance are not the same thing. Unity doesn’t come merely through tolerance. You don’t need to tolerate people from other religions. It is time you start loving them. Toleration may make you a decent person, but it is love that makes you a true human being. "
― Abhijit Naskar , In Search of Divinity: Journey to The Kingdom of Conscience
3 " While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive. "
4 " More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion. "
5 " Genghis Khan decreed religious tolerance for all of his conquered peoples. So I think he definitely would approve of our constitutional protections of freedom of religion. I think he would also approve of the way the U.S. has been able to attract talented people from all over the world. "
6 " We in the United States should be all the more thankful for the freedom and religious tolerance we enjoy. And we should always remember the lessons learned from the Holocaust, in hopes we stay vigilant against such inhumanity now and in the future. "
