Activists who aren't 'straight, white and Christian' have pushed back against bigotry for many generations, and they have secured hard-won advances. — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
We have a right to expect a police force that protects our citizens and behaves in a responsible manner... in the American… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
As a society we have a duty to remove representations of dishonor that represent the hateful ideologies of bigotry and invidious discrimination. — Al N. Green Copy Share Image
There's one form of bigotry that is still acceptable in America - that's the bigotry against the successful. — Phil Gramm Copy Share Image
Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times. — John Prendergast Copy Share Image
Bigotry is ever the child of ignorance, and the cultivation of the understanding is the only radical cure for it. — Mary Hays Copy Share Image
Tiny little brain, and so much full of the poison of bigotry, of course,would be a religious fanatic, — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“A purely and passionately political person, as I understand, is a person who can find anybody pleasant so long as Politics is… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
How a regulation so unjust in itself, so foreign to the authority of Congress, and so hurtful to the sale of public… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“What was good enough for the fiction fearing men of the past, is no yardstick for the civilized us. Just like what… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Thank God in heaven! What a relief! They could let their breaths out now. Miss Efficiency was a bigot. These days the… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Dr. [Martin Luther] King led a very historic march here in Washington, D.C. It was a march for jobs and freedom. It… — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Persecuting bigots may be compared to those burning lenses which Lenhenboeck and others composed from ice; by their chilling apathy they freeze… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A child is not a bargaining chip or a learning tool. Your focus, if you adopt a child of a different race,… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects...… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
“...let it be remembered that most men live in a world of their own, and that in that limited circle alone are… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“{ From Lindsey's address at the funeral of renowned scientist Luther Burbank . Burbank was one of the most beloved people in… — Ben Lindsey Copy Share Image
In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.'s ‘I Have a Dream' speech is one citizen's soul-searing plea with his countrymen––Whites and Blacks––to… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
That's what is always fascinating about racism - how it is allowed, if not encouraged, to flourish freely in public spaces, the… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit their texts may conflict, but… — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
“The more you put your arm around those that you might naturally look down on, the more you will love yourself. And… — Dan Pearce Copy Share Image
Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially… — George Michael Copy Share Image
There is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still. As long as a child needs help, as… — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
We don't have media literacy in America in any kind of substantive way. If we did, I think that (A) more of… — Jennifer Pozner Copy Share Image
My history of the Jesuits is not elegantly written, but is supported by unquestionable authorities, is very particular and very horrible. Their… — John Adams Copy Share Image
No form of theocracy, whether it's manifested in a violent or non-violent form, is ever good for civilisation, and we have to… — Maajid Nawaz Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm alarmist. I'm more disappointed by the euphemisms in some instances than outright bigotry. Now, to me, you walk… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
“The rural, mid-19th-century dialect, coupled with the author's interest in ethnobotany, roots the story deeply in the houses, forests, gardens, and even… — Sharon Lovejoy Copy Share Image
There is something in us, somehow, that, in the most degraded condition, we snatch at a chance to deceive ourselves into a… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“There are no other heaven and hell outside the human mind. Goodness is heaven, hatred is hell. Acceptance is religion, sectarianism is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A white person listens to my act and he laughs and he thinks, 'Yeah, that's the way I see it too.' Okay.… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
“At the level of high culture with which this book is concerned, active bigotry is probably fairly rare. It is also hardly… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
The hardest part about gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. As long as that niche… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There is no tariff so injurious as that with which sectarian bigotry guards its commodities. It dwarfs the soul by shutting out… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
You cannot believe what you are saying." "Well, no. Hardly ever. But the philosopher is like the poet. The latter composes ideal… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again. It was in the air somehow. That… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
“If you want to find out if someone is truly holy, don't ask them whether they believe in god, ask them instead,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
![“Dr. [Martin Luther] King led a very historic march here in Washington, D.C. It was a march for jobs and freedom. It was a march to raise expectations that this country could live up to its ideals. I have watched this debate, this conversation [betwin Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump] about…” quote by Donna Brazile](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b2/donna-brazile-2392_bigotry_dr-martin-luther-king-led-a-very-histori_2380365.png)
