"Of course, the majority of us would speak……" — Jack Antonoff
"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 someone casually refers to something as 'gay'? If we don't, we are standing with the homophobes whom we are quietly fighting."
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Jack Antonoff
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14 Quotes by Jack Antonoff
Jack Antonoff has 14 quotes on this site.
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I think that everyone at any age should ask themselves, 'where do I want to be today, where do I…
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God, just shoot me the day I start making music you can just put on in the car and have…
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The same way all the people I love factor in—my parents, my sister, my girlfriend [Lena Dunham], my best friend,…
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'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't…
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As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have…
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So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out,…
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was…
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Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have…
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The best pop music is the songs that a group of people can dance to, but you can also listen…
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The only people playing the roles of classic rock stars are hip-hop artists, now. Kanye's stage persona, and the way…
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Black and white creates a strange dreamscape that color never can.
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Everyone wants to get better. You go through life, you want to shift and change and get better. No one…
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More Bigotry Quotes
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one of 265 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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…
— 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,…
— Jonathan Rauch
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