Bigotry Quotes
265 quotes by 208 authors
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
— Joseph Addison
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Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of…
— Annie Besant
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Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, and anti-racism.
— George H. W. Bush
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Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
— Lord Byron
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He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
— Andrew Carnegie
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We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we…
— Maya Angelou
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The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.
— James A. Baldwin
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Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry; it makes patriotism…
— William Hazlitt
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More non-fringe, non-radical homosexuals emerge into public view every day. As the stereotype of the homosexual as antisocial deviant crumbles, a (political) party or faction…
— Jonathan Rauch
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We call for the end of bigotry as we know it. The end of racism as we know it. The end of child abuse in…
— Urvashi Vaid
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We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition,…
— George Washington
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All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.
— William Wordsworth
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The world in which we live would benefit greatly if men and women everywhere would exercise the pure love of Christ, which is kind, meek,…
— Howard W. Hunter
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We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And…
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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I don't want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the…
— Billy Graham
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