bigotry

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

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

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 hell without perspiring.

We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change places with an easy and blessed facility.

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.

Of all the injuries inflicted by racism on people of colour the most corrosive is the wound within the internalized racism that leads some victims at unspeakable cost to their own sense of self to embrace the values of their oppressors.

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.

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

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

Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.

Passion and prejudice govern the world only under the name of reason.

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

Mainly, it__ not that there are things you can__ say. It__ that there are things you can__ say without the risk that people who previously lacked a voice might use their own freedom of speech to object.

The best way to avoid a catastrophic conflict of beliefs is to be more compassionate about other people__ beliefs as long as they do not advocate for prejudices, bigotry and sectarianism.

One of the biggest contradictions in self-proclaimed open-mindedness is to say that we're all one but when a true bigot comes around tell him we're all different. It's usually the case that neither side is correct. One might have the right to do something, anything, but sure enough, that doesn't mean it's right and a benefit to other people.

It is my sincere opinion that our precious time on earth should not be spent attempting to justify unbelievable acts of cruelty, death, and disease as a part of 'God__ Plan' or the greater good _ and clinging to ancient texts that preach ill-concealed bigotry and sexism. Instead, we should find ways to make this life happy and satisfying, without regard to the unknowable nature of an afterlife.

There is a wicked and pervading arrogance loose on the earth, like a rabid beast, an overdog. Does it run, does it slouch, does its name have a number? The beast preaches contempt, for that's what arrogance says: that nothing is real but itself, and the bone and blood of another's being are insubstantial as breath.

Beware of anyone who calls you bad names merely for asking honest questions.