Friday, September 10, 2010

Bigotry May Be Roughly Defined As The Anger Of Men Who Have No Opinions

-G. K. Chesterton

The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.
-David O. McKay

It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that it was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject.
-Joseph Story

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
-Edwin Hubble Chapin

Bigotry is the sacred disease.
-Heraclitus

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
-Charles Caleb Colton

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
-Rabindranath Ragore

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

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

In response to the actions of that bigoted religious yahoo in Florida, I have just bought an English copy of the Qu'ran. I will peruse it and then keep it next to my bible.

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