Erase the Hate, one of Toledo Area Ministries’ partners, is a collaboration of Toledo-area community,
education, and religious organizations and agencies.
To kick off 2011, the organization is trying to spread the word for people across the Northwest Ohio area
to become actively involved in their part to respect others and remain civil, especially in difficult
situations.
The organization works together to develop and promote programs that promote appreciation of diversity.
Erase the Hate wants to start 2011 off with a call to action for civility, kindness and respect. Without
a doubt, 2011 will be a year of struggle and challenges within our society. According to the
organization, how to handle these struggles and challenges depend on politeness and courtesy in behavior
or speech, how oneself acts out in goodness and charitable behavior, and how oneself denotes a positive
feeling of esteem for a person of other entity.
Erase the Hate challenges everyone to speak and act with civility, kindness and respect. We all wish and
pray for a better world to live in, but rarely take the first step to see that change. Mahatma Gandhi
once said, "We must be the change we wish to see in the world," and he is absolutely right.
Organizers say to see change in the community, we all need to remember to express differences while
remaining civil, kind, and respectful.
Erase the Hate has adopted this call to action as their theme for the 2011 year and hopes that every
individual will adopt these actions as their own resolution and/or personal theme as well.
For more information visit www.erasethehatetoledolorg.