Bigotry

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BIGOTRY: Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it. (Unknown Source)

BIGOTRY: The mind of a bigot is likened to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts. (Oliver W. Holmes, Jr., U.S. jurist who served for 30 years as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1841-1935)

BIGOTRY: Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it. (Rabindranath Tagore, a learned Bengali who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art, 1861-1941)

BIGOTRY: Bigotry toward diverse forms of humanity (race, gender, ability, languagestems from the â€¨same root - an inability to recognize the notion of difference as a dynamic â€¨human force, one which is enriching, rather than threatening, when there are shared goals. (Caribbean-American writer and feminist, 1934-1992)

BIGOTRY: The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts. (Oliver W. Holmes, Jr., U.S. jurist who served for 30 years as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1841-1935)

BIGOTRY: Bigotry is the harvest of the persistent seeds of intolerance that is planted in ground --- ground that has been plowed by fear and watered by greed. (Paraphrased from Dan Morrow, U.S. author and professor of educational psychology)

BIGOTRY: Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity, nothing exceeds the criticisms made of the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed. (Herman Melville, U.S. novelist, short story writer, 1819-1891)