I AM PROUD TO BELONG TO A RELIGION WHICH HAS TAUGHT THE WORLD BOTH TOLERANCE AND UNIVERAL ACCEPTANCE

My thanks, also, to some of the speakers on this platform who, referring to the delegates from the Orient, have told you that these men from far-off nations may well claim the honour of bearing to different lands the idea of toleration. I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true.

- Swami Vivekananda
Delivered at the World's Parliament of Religions, Chicago, 11th September 1893 1893.