Gordon Brown Quotes

When a politician like Marco Rubio is willing to sacrifice his career defining immigration reform legislation solely to insure that gays and lesbians are denied equal protection under the law, we have to admit that we're under attack. This is not pragmatic politics at work. These are the policies of bias, exclusion and unfairness.

I think Donald Trump might be racist.

I think Peter King... he's kind of narrow-minded.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.

A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

You know, people aren't always the most open-minded.

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.'

If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

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

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

Nor do I believe that we should be impartial about certain things like racialism, or extreme forms of political belief.

The absolute basis of all prejudice is ignorance and generalization.

A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements.

Prejudice locks the mind. Nothing can enter. Nothing true can escape.

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.

In reality, bias against ‘heretics’ is felt today just as it used to be. Many give way to it as much as their forefathers used to do. Only, they have turned it against political adversaries. Those are the only ones with whom they refuse to mix. Sectarianism has only changed its object and taken other forms, because the vital interest has shifted. Should we dare to say that this shifting is progress?

When we blame all Muslims, all Syrians, or all members of any other group because of the actions of individuals, we fall into the trap of asserting collective guilt. We empower the narrow-minded ideology that we are trying to defeat.

Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can't move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.

Often in red states you find racism, and where you find racism, you also find sexism.