Birth place Quote by Bayard Rustin

“The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of an eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

“Great minds with great ideas usually share in the midst of their persecution”

— Jeremy Aldana

There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Briefly, then, we dismiss the two opposite dangers of bigotry and fanaticism, bigotry which is a too great vagueness and fanaticism which is a…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Certain it is, the place still continues under the sway of some witching power, that holds a spell over the minds of the good…

— Washington Irving

“All right, Schwartz, tackle my mind now. Go as deep as you want. I was born on Baronn in the Sirius Sector. I lived…

— Isaac Asimov

“bigotry to consist in stubborn and unjustified animus toward people, typically (though not always) in the context of a larger system of subordination.”

— John Corvino

“There exists a subterranean world where pathological fantasies disguised as ideas are churned out by crooks and half-educated fanatics [notably the lower clergy] for…

— Martin Amis

(Baudelaire) had descended to the bottom of the inexhaustible mine, had picked his way along abandoned or unexplored galleries, and had finally reached those…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“I have heard the people dwelling in my land, hall-rulers, say that they had often seen two such mighty stalkers of the marches, spirits…

— Chauncey Brewster Tinker

“Bigotry ravashes the human spirt like the winds of wildfire.”

— Ronald P. Chavez