Bigotry

"A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes there is no virtue but on his own side."

"“bigot”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913"

"I believe very strongly that every person in the world is important and should not be treated differently based on race, gender, orientation, religious beliefs or otherwise."

"The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less."

"Some say it is unfair to hold disadvantaged children to rigorous standards. I say it is discrimination to require anything less–-the soft bigotry of low expectations."

"The difference between de jure and de facto segregation is the difference between open, forthright bigotry and the shamefaced kind that works through unwritten agreements between real estate dealers, school officials, and local politicians."

"I have no prejudice against sect or race, but want each individual to be judged by his own merit."

"We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions—bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality. Whoever seeks to set one nationality against another, seeks to degrade all nationalities. Whoever seeks to set one race against another seeks to enslave all races. Whoever seeks to set one religion against another, seeks to destroy all religion."

"I have no race prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he cant be any worse."

"Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand With a grip that kills it."

"There is no tariff so injurious as that with which sectarian bigotry guards its commodities. It dwarfs the soul by shutting out truths from other continents of thought, and checks the circulation of its own."

"Some things are right and some things are wrong. Eternally so, absolutely so. Its wrong to hate. It always has been wrong and it always will be wrong. Its wrong in America, its wrong in Germany, its wrong in Russia, its wrong in China. It was wrong in 2000 B.C., and its wrong in 1954 A.D. It always has been wrong, and it always will be wrong. Its wrong to throw our lives away in riotous living. No matter if everybody in Detroit is doing it, its wrong. It always will be wrong, and it always has been wrong. Its wrong in every age and its wrong in every nation. Some things are right and some things are wrong, no matter if everybody is doing the contrary. Some things in this universe are absolute. The God of the universe has made it so. And so long as we adopt this relative attitude toward right and wrong, were revolting against the very laws of God himself... My friends, that attitude is destroying the soul of our culture! Its destroying our nation! The thing that we need in the world today is a group of men and women who will stand up for right and to be opposed to wrong, wherever it is. A group of people who have come to see that some things are wrong, whether theyre never caught up with. And some things are right, whether nobody sees you doing them or not."