Know these two difinitions, Tolerance - The ability or willingness to tolerate something, in particular the existence of opinions or behavior that one does not necessarily agree with. Open-mindedness, broadmindedness, forbearance, liberality, patience, charity, indulgence, understanding "an attitude of tolerance toward other people". Bigotry is the intolerance toward those who hold different opinions from oneself, "the difficulties of combating prejudice and bigotry'. We have intolerance and political bigotry in American and that is dangerous to our nation. We must practice tolerance.