Borders Quote by Tanner Cook

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

— Ronald P. Chavez

“White people build a really big fire and stand way back. Indians build a little-bitty fire and get real close.”

— Rickey Bray

“peoples, like so many beasts, have fallen into the custom of each man thinking only of his own private interests and have reached the…

— Giambattista Vico

“In some cases, I am able to respect what so many call bigots. Such people have a more solid foundation for drawing their lines…

— Criss Jami

“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

“None of these things spells the death of a tolerant, morally diverse Open Society. But they do remind us that constant talk of 'tribes'…

— Gerald F. Gaus

“Unlike the majority of people, he did not hate or fear the wilderness; as harsh as the empty lands were, they possessed a grace…

— Christopher Paolini

“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

“Is it a small thing to quench the flames of hell with the holy tears of pity -- to unbind the martyr from the…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“I think we are, by our own closed-door admissions, a fractious untrusting tribe unified only because we are besieged by larger forces.”

— Andrew X. Pham

“Part the curtains of society’s racial, ethnic, religious, national, and cultural conflicts, and you find the human ego turning the knobs and pulling the…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“And it was that when we ceased to depend on small-group gathering...based society to a more sedentary life... that an enormously significant repression... of…

— John Livingston, from "Rogue Primate: An Investigation Into Human Domestication