Quotes About Bigotry

People who wander are nicer to be with. Movement militates against hoarding possessions and against bigotry, because you are constantly moving across boundaries and having to negotiate with people.

It's the only thing that allowed me to win so many championship fights and allowed me to put up with the bigotry of the media, the keyboard warriors, the critics. I've endured it all because, spiritually, I am buoyant, alive.

bigotry: leftover component from the days of tribalism, when there were just two groups of people, us and them.

For the varieties of bigotry spring from a common root. To tolerate one form, either wittingly or not, is to accept all the rest.

Humans who have been subjected to a lifetime of irrational bigotry on the part of a mainstream society can be excused for harboring unreasonable fears.

Trump is literally the epitome of evil, all the evils of this country - be it racism, capitalism, sexism, homophobia.

There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.

It's the whole white-supremacist movement, no matter what they call themselves - be it Klan, Nazis, alt-right, skinheads - the basic ideology is the same. They consider themselves superior to others because of their white skin, and we should not sleep on that.

Having served as North Carolina Attorney General for 16 years, I am all too familiar with the racism, bigotry and full-out white supremacy that exist in corners of our society.

If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.

Without a vision, we become a debating society and a place where habit quickly becomes 'tradition.' Tradition often becomes an excuse for repression, bigotry, or reactionary thinking.

It took many years to cleanse Arabia of its "false idols." It will take many more to cleanse Islam of its new false idols—bigotry and fanaticism—worshipped by those who have replaced Muhammad's original vision of tolerance and unity with their own ideals of hatred and discord. But the cleansing is inevitable, and the tide of reform cannot be stopped. The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it. 1

Which of our unnoticed isms will the hindsight of future generations condemn?

Think about three hundred Donald Trumps walking around here shopping for niggers. 'Look at that one, didn't they shine him up nice? What if I buy that other one, will you make me a deal?' " That

We were moving because Eric's office had moved there, and commutes from Bay Ridge to Long Island City uncomfortably reminded us of Latin American immigrants knifed to death by bigots in subway cars en route to one of their three jobs at two in the morning.

It's really easy to persuade people to be hateful

The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.

Every once in a while, a great nation has to deal with a great issue. Millions of people understand that it's not bigotry to believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.

When I say things like 'Marriage should be between one man and one woman,' I'm called a bigot.

All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.

Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.

Superstition is great enemy of man but bigotry is worse.

The very nature of the Chinaman holds him back. If his fellow should fall, John thinks it quite proper that he stamp on the underdogs face.

No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns.