#Bigotry Quotes

“Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.”

“Bigotry is the disease of ignorance.”

“The Gothic idea that we were to look backwards instead of forwards for the improvement of the human mind, and to recur to the annals of our ancestors for what is most perfect in government, in religion and in learning, is worthy of those bigots in religion and government by whom it has been recommended, and whose purposes it would answer. But it is not an idea which this country will endure.”

“We must never remain silent in the face of bigotry. We must condemn those who seek to divide us. In all quarters and at all times, we must teach tolerance and denounce racism, anti-Semitism and all ethnic or religious bigotry wherever they exist as unacceptable evils. We have no place for haters in America -- none, whatsoever.”

“Travel is fatal to bigotry.”

“Travel is lethal to prejudice.”

“Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.”

“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.”

“The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.”

“As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God's word to justify bigotry and persecution.”

“This young lady, who instantly overwhelmed me with her kindness, is the ugliest creature I have seen in my entire life, with repulsive Jewish facial features.”

“There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.”

“On the one side was bigotry, ignorance, hatred, superstition, every sort of blackness that the human mind is capable of. On the other side was sense.”

“Bigotry is the sacred disease.”

“... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.”

“Our Constitution gives to bigotry no sanction.”

“Antisemitism, for instance, is simply not the doctrine of a grown-up person.”

“Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.”