Quotes About Bigotry

Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure that you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.

It is you humans who hate anything that differs from you, be it only by the shape of its ears," the elf went on calmly. "That's why you took our land from us, drove us from our homes, forced us into the savage mountains.

I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it. You know who else was kind of "divisive" in terms of challenging the status quo and the powers-that-be of his day? Jesus Christ.

We're a social species, and we want to get along with the people we like and who are like us. That's just good adaptive behaviour. We're more likely to accept something if we hear it from a friend, whereas we're sceptical of people who are not like us - which is what leads to racism, nationalism, sexism and all forms of bigotry.

I know my destiny. I was born into animosity, bigotry and hatred. We had water for white folks, and water for coloured folks. White lines, black lines. I came from Beaufort in South Carolina, and it was tougher than Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.

I fight against racism and bigotry because I care about the people who are experiencing it.

Trickle-down racism, trickle-down bigotry, trickle-down misogyny, all these things are extraordinarily dangerous to the heart and character of America.

Anti-Semitism is extremely common.

I get racist letters all the time from people who aren't Bradford City supporters. You just laugh at them, tear them up and throw them in the bin.

Nor was my squad troubled by racial or religious bigotry. We had no "inner conflict," as the phrase goes. These things happen most often in the imagination of men who never fought. Only rear echelons with plenty of fat on them can afford such rich diseases, like an epicure with his gout.

one human being judged groups of other human beings less worthy than his own. The

the worst aspect of our time is prejudice... In almost everything I've written, there is a thread of this - man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.

repressive bigotry was a hallmark of the various Reformations, and the relative silence on these matters by generations of historians is shameful. Of course, there has been full coverage of the many religious wars stemming from the Reformations, and of the savagery these involved – but these were wars, not matters of domestic policy.

We have abundant reason to rejoice that, in this land, the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition," President Washington wrote to one Baltimore church.26 "Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.

which he attributed to his discomfort with Jews.

an Anglican college in New York, which, he warned, would become "a contracted receptacle of bigotry

don't really care about the little guy. I just hate the big guy. I hate big smug people who think they can get away with things.

Not too long ago, the man who was then the president of Iran was quoted as saying that Jews descended from monkeys and pigs.

True affection and love have a purity which shall always prevail over bigotry.

It was always somebody's turn. The Irish, the Italians, the Jews, the Negroes or Chinese or Mexicans. A great wheel of bigotry, ever turning. Who got to decide what made somebody an American? America, the ideal of it at least, was its own form of elusive magic.

Mabel's parents had said that it was bigotry dressed up to look like science.

Avoid internalizing society's sexism, racism, ageism - pick an ism, any ism.

What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.

The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer.