Bigotry Quote by Sonia Sotomayor

“It was like the violence of the world he’d grown up in had embedded itself in him, taken root, and could never be fully…

— S.E. Jakes

“These people, these neighbors, both Protestant and Catholic alike, who spat at each other with such hatred that it sometimes erupted into violence, did…

— Anna Lee Huber

“Legend tells us that the High King of Tara, who ruled supreme over all the Kings of Ireland, looked out from his castle one…

— Carole Carlton

“The Irish were poor, but not enslaved. He had come here to hack away at the ropes that held American slavery in place. Sometimes…

— Colum McCann

“And he got going from there to America. Worked his passage, I s'pose, like a lot more. And I heard he did well in…

— Eddie Lenihan

“The Irish were regarded as shiftless and drunken; moreover, they were papists, and their fealty to Rome, it was said, meant they could never…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr

“But outside of the North of Ireland there is no religious question, and in the North it is fundamentally more political than religious.”

— James Stephens

“You may have noticed there are three things an Irishman always puts his soul in: his religion, his sports, and his politics. If you…

— Mary Deasy

“In the summer of 2007, I was sitting in a studio in Dublin, debating with a lay spokesman of the Roman Catholic Church who…

— Christopher Hitchens

“For the Irish, life is a matter of perpetual grievance. We remember the Famine, but forget the Draft Riots. We seal off our neighborhoods…

— Mary Gordon

“Such brutishness was beyond the English capacity for tolerance. Especially when the vulgarians in question occupied such lovely lands. So, as they had for…

— David E. Stannard

“...early medieval Ireland sounds like a somewhat crazed Wisconsin, in which every dairy farm is an armed camp at perpetual war with its neighbors,…

— David Willis McCullough