Bigotry Quotes - Page 4

• We don't lump people by groups or special interests. And let me add, in the party of Lincoln there is no room for intolerance and not even a small corner for anti-Semitism or bigotry of any kind. Many people are welcome in our house, but not the bigots.

  Ronald Reagan

  Party, People, House

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

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• Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Community, World, Civilized Society

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• I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.

  Dick Gregory

  Kings, Men, Thinking

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• Bigotry is the sacred disease, and self-conceit tells lies.

  Heraclitus

  Political, Racist, Disease

  "The fragments of Heraclitus" by Heraclitus, no. 47,

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• Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Block, Reality, Tunnels

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• 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

  Gay, Brave, Racist

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• Donald Trump is dangerous. The truth is that the bigotry and hatred that he speaks have real consequences in people's lives.

  Deray McKesson

  Real, Hatred, Speak

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights.

  George Washington

  Exercise, Rights, Class

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1792). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.93

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• Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups.

  George Michael

  Political, Groups, Minorities

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

  William Wordsworth

  Gratitude, Money, Men

  William Wordsworth (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)”, p.263, Delphi Classics

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• I'm surprised at the extent of the bigotry. But it really plays out when companies or schools take a side and prohibit the other platform at all. We Mac users should be good even when the other side is bad. We should do what we can to accept the other platforms.

  Steve Wozniak

  School, Play, Racist

  "Mac vs Windows?". Answer to the question from E-mail, www.woz.org.

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• Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

  Walt Whitman

  Change, Racist, Fool

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.264, NYU Press

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• We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.

  Rachel Griffiths

  Father, Drama, Struggle

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Rest assured that our work is not over because our work has never been only hunting Nazi war criminals. The Simon Wiesenthal Center is an institution, a worldwide institution, engaged in combating anti-Semitism, bigotry, racism. And unfortunately, did we say goodbye to genocide after Hitler died in the bunker? No, we didn't. So in such a world, I'm afraid there will always be a need for organizations like the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

  Marvin Hier

  Goodbye, War, Hunting

  "The Last Of Nazi War Convictions Will Not End Fight Against Anti-Semitism". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. February 13, 2016.

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• The true gospel of Jesus Christ never led to bigotry. It never led to self-righteousn ess. It never led to arrogance. The true gospel of Jesus Christ leads to brotherhood, to friendship, to appreciation of others, to respect and kindness and love

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Appreciation, Jesus, Kindness

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• The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry; it makes patriotism an excuse for carrying fire, pestilence, and famine into other lands: it leaves to virtue nothing but the spirit of censoriousness.

  William Hazlitt

  Hate, Heart, Land

  "The Pope is a Model Politician" by Joe Keohane, www.esquire.com. October 22, 2013.

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• Every indifference to prejudice is suicide because, if I don’t fight all bigotry, bigotry itself will be strengthened and, sooner or later, it will return on me.

  Bayard Rustin

  Suicide, Fighting, Prejudice

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• Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations.

  Charles Schumer

  America, Poison, No Excuses

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• I don't draw any distinctions between forms of bigotry or forms of ideology that lose sight of the humanity of people. I can't stand white supremacy. I can't stand male supremacy. I can't stand imperial subjugation. I can't stand homophobia.

  Cornel West

  White, Sight, People

  "Cornel West, 'Living And Loving Out Loud'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. October 29, 2009.

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• A white person listens to my act and he laughs and he thinks, 'Yeah, that's the way I see it too.' Okay. He's white. I'm Negro. And we both see things the same way. That must mean that we are alike..... So I figure I'm doing as much for good race relations as the next guy.

  Bill Cosby

  Mean, Thinking, White

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• There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Land, Cheerful

  Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume I: (1855-1873)”, p.306, Univ of California Press

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• We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice - however much we might desire it.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Should Have, Law, Racism

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• No form of theocracy, whether it's manifested in a violent or non-violent form, is ever good for civilisation, and we have to challenge it in civil society as well as we would challenge Christian-based theocracy, or any other form of bigotry.

  Maajid Nawaz

  Christian, Challenges, Violent

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• [Donald] Trump has a great capacity to use bluster and bigotry to inflame people.He is becoming ISIS's best recruiter.

  Hillary Clinton

  Isis, People, Use

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Fear and Bigotry are bred fom isolation and ignorance. -Shekinah

  P. C. Cast

  Ignorance, Isolation

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