Emma Goldman Quotes

It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

Ignorance breeds fear and hatred.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

It is what people do not know that they persecute each other about.

The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.

Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.

Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.

Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.

Religious-based and ethnic-based schools act as points of division in society, often breeding prejudice and fear …

The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosives and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices, to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy. And a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own

There is a cost to ignorance and the hate.

We are not born knowing how to hate; we are taught how to hate.

Racism exists, but it is far less rampant than ignorance, and ignorance can be cured through experience.

I don't know how racists live with their racism. We need to take the road of love. I don't think folks are born that way; it's learned and taught out of fear.

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.

Prejudice is more violent the blinder it is.

I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department.

If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest.

Sometimes, unfortunately, hatred is more powerful than progress.