I was looking through some quotes about bigotry. There are actually some pretty impressive quotes out there ....
Heraclitus wrote: "Bigotry is the sacred disease." ... interesting. I wonder what he meant by that?
Charles Caleb Colton said: "Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost." That's a sad and scary thought, isn't it?
Coretta Scott King said that, "Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood." I think she probably knows what she's talking about, having experienced so much of it first hand.
Anna Quindlen wrote; "Our love of lockstep is our greatest curse, the source of all that bedevils us. It is the source of homophobia, xenophobia, racism, sexism, terrorism, bigotry of every variety and hue, because it tells us there is one right way to do things, to look, to behave, and to feel."
George Gordon Byron wrote: “Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.” Amen, George, amen to that!