"Bigotry is the disease of ignorance..." — Thomas Jefferson
"Bigotry is the disease of ignorance..."
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Thomas Jefferson
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1,437 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
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Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.
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Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your…
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[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able…
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The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted…
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It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral…
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The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.
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If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.
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We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
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I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better…
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The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
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It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature,…
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Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
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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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