William E. Borah Quotes

Bigotry is chronic dogmatism.

Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.

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

A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements.

Prejudice locks the mind. Nothing can enter. Nothing true can escape.

Hatred, racism, and extremism have no place in this country.

In some ways I feel sorry for racists and for religious fanatics, because they so much miss the point of being human, and deserve a sort of pity. But then I harden my heart, and decide to hate them all the more, because of the misery they inflict and because of the contemptible excuses they advance for doing so.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

Intemperance and intolerance serve no one, and hatred guarantees failure.

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.

You know, people aren't always the most open-minded.

I'm not homophobic, I'm not a bigot, I'm not pandering to hatred.

Maine is a lot of things but one thing it will never be is the headquarters for hate groups and organizations of bigots.

If there are infidels here, then beat them up. Do not tolerate them…. They are like crawling worms, snakes, and maggots.

Our enemy is hatred - the hatred inherent in fundamentalism.

It must be awful, being a homophobe.

I do not want to have anything to do with anybody who is racist or bigoted or anti-Semitic.

If your belief is hateful towards people, I couldn't respect that.

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance.

if you learn to hate one or two persons... you'll soon hate millions of people.

Don't go to the dark side. Don't go bashing immigrants or Muslims.

If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

I'm not any kind of a bigot, I'm not.

I don't think I'm alarmist. I'm more disappointed by the euphemisms in some instances than outright bigotry. Now, to me, you walk around with a Klan hat on or you've got a swastika on you arm, you just look like a dope, you know what I mean?