James Stephens Quotes

Sometimes, unfortunately, hatred is more powerful than progress.

It's a very bad thing when people exterminate other people, and people persecute minorities.

Evil or atrocity often explodes from a furnace built from the steady accretion of small, unchallenged wrong.

There's a lot of hate in the world.

If we stand idly by while states legalize bigotry, we are responsible for allowing it to happen.

No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.

As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy.

Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.

We do not wonder that there is conflict in the world. There is now, and has been from the time that Cain slew Abel, so much of hatred.

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.

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood.

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.

Sectarianism, bigotry, and it's horrible descendant, fanaticism, have long possessed this beautiful Earth. They have filled the earth with violence, drenched it often and often with human blood, destroyed civilization, and sent whole nations to despair. Had it not been for these horrible demons, human society would be far more advanced than it is now.

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.

Hate breeds violence.

… musty deposits of 2000 years of inhumanity, intolerance and foulness.

The march of history is accompanied by a steady flow of bodies into the abattoir of hate.

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

It is useless to attempt to disguise the hostility that exists on the part of a great many here toward northern men…. There is now a test of what shall be the status of northern men–whether they can live here without being in constant dread or not; whether they can be protected in life and property, and have justice in the courts.

Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation.