135 quotes found
“Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.”
“My request today is simple. Today. Tomorrow. Next week. Find somebody, anybody, thats different than you. Somebody that has made you feel ill-will or even hateful. Somebody whose life decisions hav...”
“Dont we get it? To put our arm around someone who is gay, someone who has an addiction, somebody who lives a different lifestyle, someone who is not what we think they should be doing that has noth...”
“I think it doesnt matter if you or I or anybody else thinks homosexuality is a sin. It doesnt matter if you or I think anything is a sin. It doesnt matter if homosexuality is a sin or not. In fact,...”
“Don't think for one minute that you are any less worthy of love and peace and harmony just because of all the hate spewed by human devils. Because that is what those haters are, you know, devils!”
“There is, after all, no moral difference between the bigot and the tolerator. They are from case to case positive or negative. One man is bigoted because he was given the sword of truth, another be...”
“Fear and bigotry dont need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.”
“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”
“Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.”
“When you meet someone, and you find that they are prejudiced against your kind, it might be your chance, not to confirm, but to be the one to finally change their mind.”
“Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment.”
“Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.”
“If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies. The sealed world in which he lives...”
“It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind.”
“Our love for our country is worth nothing if it deprives us of our sense of humanity, if it destroys positive consensus.”
“When the mind is without fear and prejudice, and the head is held high with the strength of reasoning, then only the brightest rays of religion can penetrate the darkest corners of the human society.”
“Freedom means equality. If you don't believe in equality for all, you don't believe in freedom.”
“In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.”
“Are you sure you've never dated girls before? You're awfully good at this." Hunter's gaze returned to me. I could see some of that hated anger still in her eyes. "Kissing?"I couldn't help laughing....”
“That's the myth of it, the required lie that allows us to render our judgments. Parasites, criminals, dope fiends, dope peddlers, whores--when we can ride past them at Fayette and Monroe, car doors...”