Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

The slayers of the heretics are the worst heretics of all.

Religious clerics have a big share in the rise on intolerance towards minorities. A country like Pakistan where literacy rate is low and people are naïve when it comes on opinion making, it becomes easy to be successful in manipulating people’s minds. The manipulation of their opinions by those who are extremists in their views and beliefs always meet disaster. These clerics have played an ugly role most of the times and their preaching of hate speech always led to more sufferings and disaster for minorities

We know, and we must never forget, that every path leads somewhere. The path of segregation leads to lynching. The path of anti-Semitism leads to Auschwitz. The path of cults leads to Jonestown. We ignore this fact at our peril.

We've seen the worst that human beings are capable of. We've seen what happens when leaders abandon common decency in favor of rage and hate. Through the lens of history, the Holocaust happened yesterday, the civil rights movement was this morning, so we are not as out of the woods as we might have thought.

Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.

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

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.

Birds of a lawless, bigoted feather bully together.

Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they're doing is right.

In any society, fanatics who hate don't hate only me - they hate you, too. They hate everybody.

Every type of discrimination whether social or cultural, whether based on sex, race, social condition, language or religion, is to be overcome and eradicated as contrary to God's intent.

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

Islam is a malignant cancer.

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

When you dehumanize a group, there's lasting consequences because they know that they're being dehumanized.

I think loathing begets fanaticism, and in the end, loathing begets hatred and violence.

We must stand together united in solidarity against the targeting, demonization, and vilification of any group of people.

I fight against racism and bigotry because I care about the people who are experiencing it.

Discrimination will impair democracy.

There's something not right with a person's soul when they judge another human being to be less adequate because of their gender or skin color.

Just as Congress stands firmly against racism and other forms of prejudice, we must take action that loudly and clearly proclaims our resolve to combat anti-Semitism at home and around the world.

If I do not fight bigotry wherever it is, bigotry is thereby strengthened. And to the degree that it is strengthened, it will, thereby, have the power to turn on me.

All my life I have fought against prejudice and intolerance.

Over the centuries, and even today, the Bible and Christian theology have helped justify the Crusades, slavery, violence against gays, and the murder of doctors who perform abortions. The words themselves are latent, inert, harmless - until they aren't.