Quotes About Bigotry

Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews.

Because there is no greater evil than ignorance and the destruction of genius. Ignorance has been responsible for more death, more bigotry, and more sin than any other force. It is the destroyer of mankind.

General Semantics has influenced recent psychology and social science greatly but has had little effect on physical sciences or education and virtually no effect on the problems it attempted to alleviate — i.e., the omnipresence of unacknowledged bigotry and unconscious prejudice in most human evaluations.

It is not only violent terrorists who induce fear as a means of communication. Intellectual terrorists are equally vile. Intellectual terrorists are emotional extortionists. These terrorists, who are often racists, sexists, classists, or religious bigots, employ the language of fear. They generalize and essentialize a people, reducing them to a phenomenon. They incite fear and terror toward their victims and force the victims into a horrified silence.

What do they want?" "They want all the freaks dead. Funny. I don't

I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.

And I certainly don't like the white supremacists and those whose religion is hating the Jews, period.

When we get through with the Jews in America, they'll think the treatment they received in Germany was nothing.

Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics/ And the Catholics hate the Protestants/ And the Hindus hate the Muslims/ And everybody hates the Jews.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

It's just not working. One nation trying to destroy another, one race trying to destroy another, one religion trying to destroy another - It's the same old story over and over again.

Racism and religious bigotry are two essential pieces of baggage mankind carries as it moves from one century to the next.

This is the God of the Crusaders and jihadists, of the inquisitors, misogynists, and homophobes. This is the God we talk about when we stand around a burning pyre, hurling stones and abuses at the heretics being grilled there.

Fear, ignorance, and hatred - these are the trinity of malice.

Antisemitism is not the hatred of people who happen to be Jews. It is hatred of them because they are Jews.

There are racist African Americans, sexist women, and antisemitic Jews.

Since antisemitism and, for that matter, all forms of prejudice are impervious to reason, they

Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.

Small minds have always lashed out at what they don't understand.

I'll be looking for patriotic, honorable, bright young men from the right backgrounds to manage the various departments. In other words, no Jews or Negroes, and very few Catholics, and that's only because I'm a Catholic.

Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.

What? The world needs one less Jew?

I am ashamed to admit that I believed black people smelled bad and had low moral standards and that good Christian white people only associated with a few "good" colored people—despite the fact that I knew no Negroes firsthand. Isn't that remarkable? Where in the world did I get those strange ideas?

A decent man who doesn't consider himself a bigot can indeed be trained to behave like a bigot if he welcomes feedback exclusively from those who consider bigotry no big deal or, indeed, an attribute to be admired.