bigotry

...when you take fright and add to it ignorance, you get hatred. That's a very unattractive equation.

Until one nation ceases its attempts to dominate another, there will never be true freedom. Until one religion relinquishes its quest to prove its god superior to that of another, there shall never be world peace. We will never truly prosper or experience lasting harmony, until we refrain from preaching the gospel of our own moral values and our personal preferences by forcing it upon others.

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

The greatest spiritual leaders in history have all preached love for others as the basis for all happiness, and never did they accompany such mandates with a list of unlovable actions or deeds. They never said, love everybody except for the gays. Love everybody except for the homeless. Love everybody except for the drug users. Love everybody except for the gang members, or those covered in ink, or the spouse abusers. They didn__ tell us it was okay to love everybody with the exception of the __railer trash,_ those living in poverty, or the illegal immigrants. They didn__ tell us it was okay to love everybody except for our ex-lovers, our lovers_ ex lovers, or our ex-lovers_ lovers. The mandate was pretty damn clear, wasn__ it?Love others.Period.

We live in a time when we have a communal duty to receive and broadcast love. We must set aside our repeating arguments and get a handle on our destructive depressions.pg vi

All Abraham's sons were taught that God would progressively reveal Himself. God's wholeness has yet to be realized. There will always be gaps in our understanding. Why should we fill those gaps with suspicion, bigotry and accusations? Men do it to women; Jews do it to Christians; Christians do it to Muslims. Yet, all these have an implied duty to Abraham.pg 54

It was always like this. When you spoke the truth, they hated you. The more you talked about love, the more they hated you.

When you hate something for twenty years, you get to know it well.

What does religious freedom mean if we would use it as a cover for hate and privilege?

You're a Black educated fool, son. These white folk have newspapers, magazines, radios, spokesmen to get their ideas across. If they want to tell the world a lie, they can tell it so well that it becomes the truth; and if I tell them you're lying, they'll tell the world even if you prove you're telling the truth. Because it's the kind of lie they want to hear.

I am usually able to tolerate all kinds of victims of indoctrination except those who have been infected with xenophobia, racism, or homophobia.

If you love your country, you must be willing to defend it from fraud, bigotry, and recklessness--even from a president.

Bigotry that is known and visible is bigotry that can be challenged.

If you defend free speech for bigots but not to combat bigotry, then you believe in bigotry, not free speech.

Trump didn't divide America. He just doused us with gasoline and fanned the flames.

Bigots often like to say they're the ones being hurt as they oppress and hurt others. Never fall for the 'pity the privileged' routine.

Building bridges takes us further than building walls.

Privilege is when your voice is the norm but still you claim to be unheard.