Teks pidato bahasa inggris

Good morning to all ladies and gentlemen who be standing here giving a speech
on tolerance in life. First of all, let’s all express our gratitude toward The Almighty
who has given us His endless blessing and grace so that in this sunny morning we
all can be here in good condition and health.

Ladies and gentlemen, what is tolerance? Tolerance is a willingness to accept

beliefs and behavior that are different from our own with which we might not
agree or of which we might not approve. Is it important? Yes, it is. We need
tolerance in our life in order to live peacefully. It has always been known that this
earth is inhabited by people with various races, ethnics, and religions. And it has
always been a fact that we live in the society whose members have different
backgrounds from each other. These differences often lead to friction among the
people in the community. In order to maintain the harmony and unity in the
community, mutual respect from the members of the community is needed. To
establish this mutual respect, they have to be tolerant toward each other. We
have to be too, because we are also the members of the community

Ladies and gentlemen, imagine if we live without tolerance. There would be wars
and conflicts everywhere. It would be impossible for us to live together in
harmony with those who are different from us. We would live in terror that
people outside our groups would attack us anytime. Unfortunately, there are still
people out there who feel this terror. The fear of being excluded, mocked, and
ridiculed for being who they are and based on what they believe. Just because
they are not the same like the rest of the society, they are being discriminated.
These people are the minority. They are humans too like us. They have the same
rights and obligations like us. Yet they cannot live peacefully like us. Why? It is
because there are still intolerant people live among us who will always play the
majority card to justify their evil doings. It is sad, but all we can do is to show love
and respect to the minority by giving them tolerance.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is true that tolerance is important, but we must be wise
on being tolerant. It means that we must set our own principle as to what extent
we tolerate something since it is also wrong to tolerate behavior and beliefs that
can be harming and can only create negative effects to us and the society. We
must know when we should give tolerance and when we should not. We cannot
tolerant everything. Tolerance, just like other good things, should not be overly
used.

Ladies and gentlemen, to end my speech, let me quote what was Karl Popper
once said, “Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance.”
Tolerance is something we need in life, but we must use it wisely. Otherwise, it
could ruin the essence of tolerance itself and could bring bad outcome to us and
others. Thank you very much.