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Quotes About Bigotry

Catholic homes caught fire because they were loaded with petrol bombs.
~ Ian Paisley
I hope to see the very concept of Jewry completely obliterated.
~ Heinrich Himmler
Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.
~ Coretta Scott King
I regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it.
~ Richard Wagner
The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.
~ David O. McKay
We are at fault for not slaying the Jews.
~ Martin Luther
Why hate someone for the color of their skin when there are much better reasons to hate them?
~ Denis Leary
What shall we do with...the Jews?...I advise that safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews.
~ Martin Luther
What shall we do with...the Jews?...their homes also should be razed and destroyed.
~ Martin Luther
I maintain that some Jew wrote it who probably heard about Christian people but never encountered any.
~ Martin Luther
It is a surprisingly close progression from hunting animals to hunting and torturing people... catching and lynching blacks or smoking out Jews during the Holocaust.
~ Aviva Cantor
Acceptance is right. Kindness is right. Love is right. I pray, right now, that we're moving into a kinder time when prejudice is overcome by understanding; when narrow-mindedness, and narrow-minded bigotry is overwhelmed by open-hearted empathy; when the pain of judgmentalism is replaced by the purity of love.
~ Janet Jackson
I don't much care who is gay or straight or married or not. I mostly notice if they are brave enough to confront bigotry.
~ Jasmine Guy
Bigotry and national aversion are powerful magnifiers of every object of dispute;
~ Edward Gibbon
One the advantages about this life is that you can hate someone without knowing him
~ Alessandro Manzoni
The bigotry question goes both ways. There's a lot more anti-Christian bigotry today than there is concerning the other side. None of it gets covered by the news media.
~ Newt Gingrich
This commitment to equality and justice for all are the ideals that our country was founded upon and what we continue to aspire to as people. We cannot be complacent, and must vigilantly affirm this again and again, as bigotry and hatred have an insidious way of seeping into our society.
~ Tulsi Gabbard
I derided Christians as anti-intellectual bigots who were too weak to face the reality that there is no rhyme or reason to the world.
~ Kirsten Powers
For whatever reason, illiteracy continues to plague the racist troll community.
~ Franchesca Ramsey
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.
~ Reza Aslan
They have to square their well-earned reputation for kindness and hospitality with their equally well-earned reputation for violence and bigotry.
~ Richard Grant
Every decent man in America ought to swoon with joy for the opportunity to crush with his heel the woolly head of this black lizard, to keep him from scuttling on his belly farther over the earth and spitting forth his venom of death!
~ Richard Wright
That cigar-chomping hemorrhoidal bigot who sits astride the riding mower on the two and a quarter acres beside you, he is smart enough to spend his IRA on this stock, so why can't you? Do you want him to have something you do not?
~ Rick Moody
And I will no longer have any dealings with Jews, except for the receipt of money.
~ Kathrine Kressmann Taylor