Quotes about Bigotry

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A tense account of the perils facing those who sought freedom in the lead-up to the Civil War. — Publisher’s Weekly
An antisemite is a person who hates Jews more than is absolutely necessary. — Jewish proverb
I am 52 years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reas — Bishop Desmond Tutu
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighbourhood after dark. — Dick Gregory
It is a great shock at the age of 5 or 6 to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian. — James Baldwin
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him and cannot be reasoned out. — Sydney Smith
Since my little daughter is only half Jewish would it be alright if she went into the pool only up to her waist? — Groucho Marx
There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be com — Charles Curtis
Prejudice is the child of ignorance. — William Hazlitt
Passion and prejudice govern the world only under the name of reason. — John Wesley
How it infuriates a bigot when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions! — Logan Pearsall Smith
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them. — Edward R. Murrow
We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change places with an easy and blessed facility. — Mark Twain
Fortunately for serious minds a bias recognized is a bias sterilized. — A. Eustace Haydon
Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room. — William Hazlitt
One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to he — H. L. Mencken
We hate some persons because we do not know them and will not know them because we hate them. — Charles Caleb Colton
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye the more light you pour upon it the more it will contract. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation as coloured Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot — Pearl Buck
Of all the injuries inflicted by racism on people of colour the most corrosive is the wound within the internalized ra — H. Jack Geiger