"Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor,……" — Lou Reed
"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, and get it over with."
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147 Quotes by Lou Reed
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Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.
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I'd harbored hopes that the intelligence that once inhabited novels or films would ingest rock. I was, perhaps, wrong.
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You do this because you like it, you think what you're making is beautiful. And if you think it's beautiful,…
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You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it...I always believed that I have something important…
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I'm too old to do things by half
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Not too many songwriters, when they write songs go for broke. When someone does who's really good, it's astonishing. There's…
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I love women, I think they're great.
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Please don't set me free Death means a lot me
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You know, some people got no choice, and they can never find a voice, to talk with that they can…
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I think it's important that people don't feel alone.
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They put the thing down your throat so you don't swallow your tongue, and they put electrodes on your head.…
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I've always believed that there's an amazing number of things you can do through a rock'n'roll song and that you…
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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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