Minority and indigenous peoples' rights

Tolerance is not a contemplative position dispensing indulgences to what was or what is. It is a dynamic attitude anticipating understanding and promoting what wants to be. The diversity of human cultures is behind us around us and before us. The only demand we can make of it (creating for each individual the corresponding duties) is that it be generalised in forms each of which is a contribution to the greater generosity of others Claude LEVIS-STRAUSS. In Race and History.