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Quotes About Bigotry

We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
~ Edwin Hubbell Chapin
I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.
~ John Calvin
I try to support groups that are about educating people about different races, different religions, different cultures and different situations so that we can break down the barriers of prejudice and bigotry.
~ Loretta Sanchez
True affection and love have a purity which shall always prevail over bigotry.
~ Libba Bray
Privilege goes unnoticed, and all but the most blatant acts of racial bigotry are ignored.
~ Beverly Daniel Tatum
If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest. To do otherwise is to be an enabler, a mafia wife, for the true devils of extremism that draw their legitimacy from the billions of their fellow travelers.
~ Bill Maher
Show me a man, any man, he is my brother. Show me a bigot, any bigot, he is my enemy.
~ Bill Russell
Kafir is not a neutral word. Instead, it defines a subhuman, so it is bigoted and biased.
~ Bill Warner
Overweight southern senators are easy targets. They too easily become focal points of all evil, allowing the arts community to willfully ignore our own bigotry, our own petty evils, our own intolerance which--evil senators or no--will be the death of the arts.
~ Suzan-Lori Parks
A bigot delights in public ridicule, for he begins to think he is a martyr. – Sydney Smith
~ Sydney Smith
Sexism is #bigotryPRIME. All others are born of it.
~ Justice Calo Reign
We must heal the divisions caused by intolerance and bigotry.
~ Janet Reno
Non-violent extremism is essentially the increase of intolerant and bigoted demands made by groups seeking to dominate society.
~ Maajid Nawaz
I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans.
~ Oriana Fallaci
My dad was such a bigot. He was a horrible, self-centred person. He was really racist and he'd talk about the Jews and blacks and Catholics even.
~ Cindy Sherman
There is in England a saying that an anti-Semite is someone who hates the Jews more than is necessary.
~ Shimon Peres
My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.
~ Kate O'Brien
Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.
~ Francis Jeffrey
Algún puto, cornudo, bujarrón y judío -dijo en altas voces- ordenó tal cosa!
~ Francisco de Quevedo
to see a nigger you kill a nigger.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received, and even the bigotry with which it is defended, there is no hospitality shown to, there is no appreciation of, the order of truth with which it deals.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted statement. It is a statement of my feelings, my fears after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 by radical Muslims.
~ Juan Williams
The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into young brains by schools on the religious right, what we're doing is training kids to be cogs in the wheels of commerce.
~ Tom Robbins