Bigotry Quotes
265 Bigotry quotes by 203 unique authors
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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 recognize that racial…
— Aberjhani
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Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Real filth is the one inside. The rest simply washes off. There is only one type of dirt that cannot be cleansed with pure waters,…
— Elif Safak
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Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the earth behind them…
— Emile M. Cioran
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I went to Washington to challenge the soft bigotry of low expectations
— Jonathan Kozol
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You know, bigotry isn't relevant to just the South. It never was. But I'm very grateful that I don't know what it's like from experience.
— Octavia Spencer
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There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation; refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry.
— Criss Jami
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I'm on the board of a national group called Faith in America. It's designed to fight religious-based bigotry.
— James McGreevey
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Here we now have the freedom of all religions, and I hope that never again will we have a repetition of religious bigotry, as we…
— Harry S. Truman
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Of course, the majority of us would speak up in the face of outrageous bigotry, but do we speak up in a social situation when…
— Jack Antonoff
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Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor, that's what the Statue of Bigotry says. Your poor huddled masses, let's just club them to death,…
— Lou Reed
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I made it very clear that I rejected bigotry of all forms.
— Steve Scalise
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Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry.
— John Dryden
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The spectacle of what is called religion, or at any rate organised religion, in India and elsewhere, has filled me with horror and I have…
— Jawaharlal Nehru
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As it was 189 years ago, so today the cause of America is a revolutionary cause. And I am proud this morning to salute you…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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It is the philosophers, theologians, and evangelists who are said to be filled with pride and bigotry due to the strong convictions that they represent.…
— Criss Jami
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The bigotry question goes both ways. There's a lot more anti-Christian bigotry today than there is concerning the other side. None of it gets covered…
— Newt Gingrich
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Should the Catholic Church find itself discriminated against by the Obama administration on key delivery of services because of the bias and the bigotry of…
— Newt Gingrich
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Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be.
— Emma Goldman
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I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black…
— Dick Gregory
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I don't much care who is gay or straight or married or not. I mostly notice if they are brave enough to confront bigotry.
— Jasmine Guy
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Bigotry and judgment are the height of insecurity.
— Jasmine Guy
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Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Who Wrote These Bigotry Quotes
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