(71 quotes found)
“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
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”
Mark Twain
“Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.”
G. K. Chesterton
“Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.”
Coretta Scott King
“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
“Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue”
Charles Simmons
“If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else”
“There is no bigotry like that of "free thought" run to seed”
Horace Greeley
“Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.”
Victor Hugo
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