#bigot

Arguably the most important parallel between mass incarceration and Jim Crow is that both have served to define the meaning and significance of race in America. Indeed, a primary function of any racial caste system is to define the meaning of race in its time. Slavery defined what it meant to be black (a slave), and Jim Crow defined what it meant to be black (a second-class citizen). Today mass incarceration defines the meaning of blackness in America: black people, especially black men, are criminals. That is what it means to be black. ↗

— Michelle Alexander

#injustice #jim-crow #racism #age

He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave. ↗

— William Drummond

#cannot #dares #fool #reason #slave

Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#effort #essentially #good #her #make

I don't slam doors in people's faces, and I'm not a bigot. ↗

— Sherman Hemsley

#doors #faces #i #people #slam

The more you put your arm around those that you might naturally look down on, the more you will love yourself. And the more you love yourself, the less need you’ll ever have to find fault or be better than others. And the less we all find fault or have a need to be better than others, the quicker this world becomes a far better place to live. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#charity #christianity #friendship #happiness #hate

Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs. ↗

— Glenn Greenwald

#censorship #freedom-of-speech #martyrdom #twitter #freedom

Haters and bullies are always cowards, you know. They like to pick on little guys. ↗

— Scylar Tyberius

#bullies #cowardice #haters #life-lesson #life

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#ignorance #life #prejudice #life

Antisemitism is unique among religious hatreds. It is a racist conspiracy theory fashioned for the needs of messianic and brutal rulers, as dictators from the Tsars to the Islamists via the Nazis have shown. Many other alleged religious 'hatreds' are not hatreds in the true sense. If I criticise Islamic, Orthodox Jewish or Catholic attitudes towards women, for instance, and I'm accused of being a bigot, I shrug and say it is not bigoted to oppose bigotry. ↗

— Nick Cohen

#bigotry #catholicism #conspiracy-theories #dictatorship #feminism

Only when we learn to value the differences among us can we achieve the true spirit of humanity. ↗

— Charles S. Weinblatt

#bigotry #equality #justice #philosophy #politics