Frederick William Robertson Quotes

With our sympathy for the wrongdoer we need the old Puritan and Quaker hatred of wrongdoing; with our just tolerance of men and opinions a righteous abhorrence of sin.

I don't want to put the world to rights... I just don't like people who put the world to wrongs.

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

An evil remains an evil whether practiced by white against black or black against white.

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.

Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.

The stories are most often about justice. In her stories, those who commit injustice, or act tyrannically, come to no good. They are punished.

There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.

Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?

Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.

Too many people hate the people that AIDS most affects: gay people and people of color. I do not mean dislike, or feel uncomfortable with. I mean hate. Downright hate. Down and dirty hate.

Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

If something strikes me as insane and unjust, I cannot tolerate that.

Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.

Sincerity is moral truth.

Do not allow your hatred for others to make you swerve to wrongdoing and turn you away from justice.

If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander.

It is a sin peculiar to man to hate his victim.

… a disgrace to the human race.

Three Whom God Should Not Have Created: Persians, Jews, and Flies

I think everybody should have the same anger towards the injustice that's happening and the hatred that's happening, and just fight it with love and compassion.

I hate a bully, and I hate racists.