29 Bigotry Quotes

When you hate something for twenty years, you get to know it well.

It was always like this. When you spoke the truth, they hated you. The more you talked about love, the more they hated you.

We live in a time when we have a communal duty to receive and broadcast love. We must set aside our repeating arguments and get a handle on our destructive depressions.pg vi

...when you take fright and add to it ignorance, you get hatred. That's a very unattractive equation.

Liberty is no less a blessing because oppression has so long darkened the mind that it can not appreciate it.

From bigots who hawk their goddoor-to-door, preserve us.

Today's zealots are mostly those pretending to be anti-religious.

[Josiah P. Mendum memorial at Paine Hall][He turned] the strait-laced Boston of sixty years ago [into] the enlightened Hub of today, . . . to 'destroy bigotry and uproot the evils of superstition.

Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.

People often call fighting discrimination being 'PC' because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged.

In the world of primitive savages, religion and bigotry go hand in hand. But, in the world of civilized humans, religion and reason must go hand in hand.

Earth" is not too long an address. It is the parts which make us forget the way.

Eastward and westward storms are breaking, --great, ugly whirlwinds of hatred and blood and cruelty. I will not believe them inevitable.

We must tell the world that even though we elected a bigot, bigotry will not prevail.

Racism hurts everyone, including racists themselves.

Xenophobia is when you smile at people and they don't smile back.

When you're marginalized, there are no "them people, " if we're all on the outskirts of the same margin.

You know how many there are. You can't convince them and you can't kill 'em. You can only do your best in the opposite direction...

Racism and religious bigotry are two essential pieces of baggage mankind carries as it moves from one century to the next.

To change undesirable behaviors we see in the world, we must change the thinking that leads to those behaviors.

Unfortunately, 'post racism' is also a myth, like unicorns and black people who survive to the end of a horror movie.

If the first words out of your mouth are to cry ‘political correctness!’, … chances are very, very high that you are in fact part of the problem.

If anyone thinks interracial "anything" is a big deal, they're probably inbred.

I wasn’t a person after all. I was simply this exotic thing for people to observe and investigate, an alien in any environment I was in.

That’s what imperialism is all about, shoving your language, religion, culture, and race down others’ throats and telling them that they’re beneath you – and it’s not unique to the West either.

Prejudices, mysticism, bigotry these things only distort religion, like they have actually done to the most religions of the world.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored — it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.

National hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

Readers will be swept up by the drama and fast pace of this powerful debut novel.” Reading Today Online, International Reading Association

Lush, detailed, total-immersion storytelling.–Kirkus Review

An Underground Railroad story with a distinctive flavor. –Booklist

A gripping historical novel . . . heart-stopping, heart-racing and eventually heart-easing.–Library Voice

Very different from other middle grade of YA stories I've read about slaves running during the 1800s. – Wandering Librarian

Did you know that even 50 years after all other countries had abolished slavery, the Netherlands refused to?

Haters and bullies are always cowards, you know. They like to pick on little guys.

No. They believe we’re dumb animals. And they won’t contradict their bigotry by listening with their own ears.

When we hide discrimination under the guise of 'religious freedom, ' we make a mockery of human rights.

People are always afraid of anything different. They are afraid of change, " says Sensai. "It is the same everywhere.

Discretion is a polite word for hypocrisy.Tea Party Teddy

A tense account of the perils facing those who sought freedom in the lead-up to the Civil War.

An antisemite is a person who hates Jews more than is absolutely necessary.

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighbourhood after dark.

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him and cannot be reasoned out.

Since my little daughter is only half Jewish would it be alright if she went into the pool only up to her waist?

There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent.

How it infuriates a bigot when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

Fortunately for serious minds a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

We hate some persons because we do not know them and will not know them because we hate them.

The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract.

It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation as coloured Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens.