Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In nations where the voices of intolerance are most visible and momentarily powerful, it is in our long run interests to remain firm in our clear articulation that the use of violence in response to speech is to be condemned.
Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.
A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.
Bigotry is the sacred disease.