Bigotry Quotes

265 Bigotry quotes by 203 unique authors

Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children:… — Christopher Hitchens
Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like… — Ernest Hemingway
All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity. — Bell Hooks
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. — Mark Twain
For nearly a century, the moral relativism of science has given faith-based religion--that great engine of ignorance and bigotry--a nearly uncontested claim to being the… — Sam Harris
Our love of lockstep is our greatest curse, the source of all that bedevils us. It is the source of homophobia, xenophobia, racism, sexism, terrorism,… — Anna Quindlen
Hindu fundamentalism is a contradiction in terms, since Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals; there is no such thing as a Hindu heresy. How dare… — Shashi Tharoor
As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.'… — Abraham Lincoln
I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin. — Jonah Goldberg
The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to bigotry. And I think it's one of… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Don't let anyone tell you that the truth can't disappear. If I believe in anything, rather than God, is that I am part of something… — Paul Monette
I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may… — Gore Vidal
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been… — James Madison
In an average day, you may well be confronted with some species of bullying or bigotry, or some ill-phrased appeal to the general will, or… — Christopher Hitchens
Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must… — Victor Hugo
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… — Wayne Gerard Trotman
Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both. — Thomas Jefferson
Patriotism threatens free speech with death. It is infuriated by thoughtful hesitation, constructive criticism of our leaders and pleas for peace. It despises people of… — Barbara Kingsolver
Under our institutions the only way to perfect the Government is to perfect the individual citizen. It is necessary to reach the mind and soul… — Calvin Coolidge
Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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