I. F. Stone Quotes

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

If anyone wants to abuse other people for whatever colour, race or creed they are, then it's just stupidness, isn't it?

Anybody who is racist, I just I think they are an idiot.

What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.

I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic.

In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'

Racist people are few, in the minority. But you can do nothing to change them. You can talk, you can do what you want, but you can't do anything because they are just stupid people.

It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups.

Someone who hates one group will end up hating everyone - and, ultimately, hating himself or herself.

Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds.

There is nothing that dies so hard and rallies so often as intolerance.

Of all the bigotries that ravage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic. It has no basis in reason, it is not rooted in faith, it aspires to no ideal.

The singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply.

Color prejudice and religion are akin in one respect. Some folks have it and some don't, and the kernel that is responsible for it is present in us all.

9/11. For the West the attack on New York's World Trade Centre conjured up a terrifying new enemy: Islamic fundamentalism. For Muslims it appeared to open the floodgates to a new wave of hatred and discrimination. Suddenly, it seemed, racists had license to attack them, police to harass them, politicians and journalists to revile their religion.

anti-woman, anti-immigrant, anti-gay, anti-education, anti-environment.

We may be more sophisticated in how we hide it, but there are still so many phobias in this world, whether it's Islamophobia, xenophobia or homophobia. I've been trying to do things that expose and help teach and draw attention to all of the 'isms' and how we do or don't deal with them in our world.

Nobody wants to be seen with a bigot.

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

Anti-Semitism has never gone away; it will always be there because it's a very convenient prejudice. The gene of it, the original DNA, is buried deep within our history. And even within some Jews as well.

You know, just to be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. They're racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic - you name it.

Most racist people are like sheep. They are people without backbones.

Everyone knows their wrong from right, so when people are being racist, they know they're being ignorant.

Racists are deficient as human beings.