“Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.”
Thomas Jefferson
“The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Ignorance is the only illness...”
Sedat Seals
“Bigotry is the sacred disease.”
Heraclitus
“Humanity fears what they don't understand. They first try and destroy what they don't understand with violence or denial. Then they try and control it through slavery, imprisonment, exile, laws, bigotry, or misinformation. Then they finally try to understand it though science, education, observation, communication. This pattern repeats throughout history and in the modern day on almost every subject. It is not until we learn to invert the sequence that we start to become enlightened.”
Greg Johnson
“I'm heartbroken that I have lost my son over such ignorance and bigotry. I can't understand how someone who is supposed to protect the people of Welch could physically block another human from saving my son's life. It's always difficult for a mother to lose a child, but to have lost my son so needlessly will be with me for the rest of my life.”
Helen Green
“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.”
Maya Angelou
