Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.
Interpretation
Tolerance is an ongoing journey that requires constant effort and commitment.
This quote by Octavia Butler emphasizes that tolerance is not a fixed state but an evolving practice that requires continuous attention and growth. It suggests that true intelligence involves recognizing the complexities of peace and actively working towards greater acceptance and understanding among people.
In practice
This quote could be used in a speech about the importance of diversity in communities.
What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's a vampire story - but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn't become vampires because someone bit them; they were born that way.
Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.
Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to.
There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.
You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.
Better to stay alive," I said. "At least while there's a chance to get free." I thought of the sleeping pills in my bag and wondered just how great a hypocrite I was. It was so easy to advise other people to live with their pain.
Since our problems have been our own creation, they also can be overcome.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.
Do not be jealous of others' good qualities, but out of admiration adopt them yourself.
When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick
Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives.
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