Bigotry Quotes - Page 10

• Man has tried his suicide with bigotry and hate, but in the end he'll kill himself with nothing but his waste.

  Roger McGuinn

  Suicide, Peace, Hate

  Song: The Trees Are All Gone

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• We in Ireland have not been immune from the bigotry and the indifference which manifested itself in Europe this century

  John Bruton

  Europe, Holocaust, Indifference

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• There are some things concerning which we must always be maladjusted if we are to be people of good will. We must never adjust ourselves to racial segregation. We must never adjust ourselves to religious bigotry. We must never adjust ourselves to economic conditions that take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Religious, Luxury, People

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• I see the policy of opposing same-sex marriages or unions, whatever you call it, as bigotry or discrimination.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Sex, Racist, Unions

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• It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject.

  Joseph Story

  Spiritual, Ambition, Pride

  Joseph Story (1833). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.702

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• Am I an Apple bigot? No. I can critique their products and their customer service philosophy. But overall, they do better than any other player.

  Donald A. Norman

  Philosophy, Player, Apples

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• I'm not any kind of a bigot, I'm not...

  Samuel Alito

  Racist, Kind, Bigots

  "Senate Panel to Wrap Questioning of Alito". "Morning Edition" with Stebe Inskeep, www.npr.org. January 12, 2006.

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• I'm not homophobic, I'm not a bigot, I'm not pandering to hatred.

  Sonny Bono

  Hatred, Racist, Homophobic

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• I still find that a kind of stricture of the heart happens when I see any form of bigoted or racist behaviour. I get an actual pain in my heart.

  Janet Suzman

  Pain, Heart, Behaviour

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• 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

  Airplane, Npr, Yesterday

  "JUAN WILLIAMS: I Was Fired for Telling the Truth" By Juan Williams, www.foxnews.com. October 21, 2010.

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• I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, "the soft bigotry of low expectations."

  Tavis Smiley

  Country, Thinking, Expectations

  "Education an economic issue?". "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.

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• For as long as there's life, for as long as we have things happening in the world, for as long as people haven't been able to work it, for as long as people are not trying to work it out, for as long as there's crime, destruction, hate, bigotry, for as long as there is a spirit that does not have love in it, I will always have something to say.

  Stevie Wonder

  Hate, Long, People

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• Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

  Anna Quindlen

  Fashion, Lasts, Comes And Goes

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• It is my sincere opinion that our precious time on earth should not be spent attempting to justify unbelievable acts of cruelty, death, and disease as a part of 'God’s Plan' or the greater good — and clinging to ancient texts that preach ill-concealed bigotry and sexism. Instead, we should find ways to make this life happy and satisfying, without regard to the unknowable nature of an afterlife.

  David G. McAfee

  Happy Life, Afterlife, Time On Earth

  FaceBook post by David G. McAfee from Mar 22, 2014

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• I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort. .

  Bernard Baruch

  Son, Effort, Experience

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• The emancipation of women from intemperance, injustice, prejudice, and bigotry. see Edgar Y. Harburg, We Gotta be Free

  Amelia Bloomer

  Prejudice, Injustice, Intemperance

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• Freemasonry must stand upon the Rock of Truth, religion, political, social, and economic. Nothing is so worthy of its care as freedom in all its aspects. "Free" is the most vital part of Freemasonry. It means freedom of thought and expression, freedom of spiritual and religious ideals, freedom from oppression, freedom from ignorance, superstition, vice and bigotry, freedom to acquire and possess property, to go and come at pleasure, and to rise or fall according to will of ability.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Spiritual, Religious, Fall

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• Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, equality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance, superstition, bigotry, lust tyranny and despotism.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Ignorance, Justice, Lust

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• The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit their texts may conflict, but their bigotries coincide. Both insist on being the sole custodians of the true word and its only interpreters.

  Frederic Raphael

  Party, Custodians, Literature

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• The idea that education will lead to a lessening of bigotry is just factually incorrect.

  Reza Aslan

  Ideas

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• In America, you’re allowed to justify almost any kind of bigotry, sexism, or intolerance if you source it to God’s big book of bad ideas.

  Bill Maher

  Book, Ideas, America

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• Love transcends international boundaries. It heals the wounds of racial hatred, prejudice, bigotry and ignorance.

  Michael Jackson

  Ignorance, Hatred, Prejudice

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• The world knows of Rosa Parks because of a single, simple act of dignity and courage that struck a lethal blow to the foundations of legal bigotry.

  William J. Clinton

  Blow, Simple, Foundation

  "Funeral Speakers Urge Public to Continue Parks' Legacy", www.foxnews.com. November 3, 2005.

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• "You cannot believe what you are saying." "Well, no. Hardly ever. But the philosopher is like the poet. The latter composes ideal letters for an ideal nymph, only to plumb with his words the depths of passion. The philosopher tests the coldness of his gaze, to see how far he can undermine the fortress of bigotry."

  Umberto Eco

  Believe, Passion, Nymphs

  "The Island of the Day Before". Book by Umberto Eco, 1994.

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• Wisdom subdues bigotry.

  John Wooden

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