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“People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist

tags: bigotry, hatred, intolerance, narrow-mindedness, perception, persecution, prejudice, religion, war

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“Bigots see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them. It's probably how they got to be bigots in the first place.”
― Jim Butcher, White Night

tags: bigotry, dresden-files

42 likes

“We live in a time when we have a communal duty to receive and broadcast love. We must set aside our repeating arguments and get a handle on our destructive depressions.
pg vi”
― Michael Ben Zehabe, Song of Songs: The Book for Daughters

tags: advice-to-children, advice-to-daughter, bigotry, communal-duty, divorce, family-peace, family-problems, hate, hate-crimes, interfaith, making-peace, prejudice

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“The sad truth about bigotry is that most bigots either don't realize that they are bigots, or they convince themselves that their bigotry is perfectly justified.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

tags: antisemitism, bigot, bigotry, bigots, delusion, denial, homophobia, justified, prejudice, racism, sexism, truth

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“All Abraham's sons were taught that God would progressively reveal Himself. God's wholeness has yet to be realized. There will always be gaps in our understanding. Why should we fill those gaps with suspicion, bigotry and accusations? Men do it to women; Jews do it to Christians; Christians do it to Muslims. Yet, all these have an implied duty to Abraham.”
― Michael Ben Zehabe, Song of Songs: The Book for Daughters