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Tolerance is the appreciation of diversity and the ability to live and let others live. It is showing respect for the essential humanity in every person.
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Tolerance
Tolerance is the appreciation of diversity and the ability to live and let others live. It is showing respect for the essential humanity in every person.
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Greg Bourne: What Do the Times Require?
A short, compelling statement of why we all need to operate from a place of love and respect for one another instead of hate.
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Allow Your Opponents to "Save Face."
Closely related to respect, protecting one's own "face" and allowing others to do the same will make conflicts much easier to address successfully.
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Ariel Markose, the Chief Strategy Officer of Amal-Tikva, Talks About How To Do Peacebuilding in Wartime
Peacebuilding looks different in the context of war, but it can (and must) be done, explains Ariel Markose, CEO of a leading Israeli-Palestinian NGO. And, she explains, it is being done, despite tremendous obstacles.
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Supporting Tolerance and Co-existence with People Who Hold Different Values
Democracy is not a system for determining which groups get to impose their views on others. It is a system that allows people with different views to coexist in a spirit of mutual respect and tolerance.
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Using a Respectful Tolerance Strategy to Allow Groups to Coexist with One Another despite Deep Differences
Democracy is not a system for one side overpowering and oppressing others. It is a system for allowing people with very different values and beliefs to live together peacefully. Tolerance of difference is essential for that.
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Co-existers
Coexisters articulate a forward-looking democratic vision based on constructive competition, balanced with a pluralistic spirit of tolerance and mutual respect
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Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
Dedicated to advancing civil rights and liberties for all Americans, and promoting a common culture based on fairness, understanding, and humanity.
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A Free Education Resource that Helps Students Engage Across Differences in Better Ways
The guide includes best practices, resources, and recommendations for those working in middle school to college education to promote critical thinking, ideological diversity, empathy, respect, and tolerance of others.
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Free Speech and Liberal Education: A Plea for Intellectual Diversity and Tolerance
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On culture-war issues, tolerance should be a two-way street
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On the paradox of tolerance in relation to fascism and online content moderation
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Tolerating Intolerance: The Free Speech Paradox
An exploration of one of the toughest challenges facing efforts to build a diverse democracy based on mutual tolerance -- the unwillingness of some people to tolerate political opponents.
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Yes, You Do Have to Tolerate the Intolerant: It has become fashionable to invoke Karl Popper's "paradox of tolerance" to justify restrictions on free speech. That's just plain wrong.
Tolerance and coexistence are key to making a diverse democracy work. This essay explores one of the big challenges facing promoters of tolerance -- the need to tolerate the intolerant.
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How I Found FAIR
An important analysis of the many benefits of political tolerance and the organization, FAIR, which champions this approach to politics.
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Reasons for Tolerance