Bigots Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.

  Clarence Thomas

  Wings, Ku Klux Klan, White

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• There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Dangerous, Dangerous Things, Conscience

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

  Rick Santorum

  Men, Should, One Woman

  "Rick Santorum, 'It Takes a Family'". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. August 4, 2005.

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• They're the bigots and they're the intolerant ones. There is a way for them, if they wanted to convey a message to the new administration, there was a way to do it that they probably could have been hailed and applauded, but doing it the way they did it totally backfired because it's what you say, it didn't show respect, it seemed taking advantage of an opportunity and so forth. And it wasn't effective.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Opportunity, Way, Messages

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I'm proud to say you are not a racist or a bigot or anything like that if you say that the Netherlands, as Australia, is a culture based on Christianity, on Judaism, on humanism, and it should not, nor ever will become a society based on Islamic failures.

  Geert Wilders

  Islamic, Australia, Culture

  Source: www.parlementairemonitor.nl

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• Obama was gonna get everything he wanted in the first year because, if anybody opposed it, they were gonna be accused of being a racist, or bigot, or who knows what.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Years, Racist, Firsts

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The list of the bigots and the list of the fools are always perfectly the same list!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Fool, Lists

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• Don't become a spiritual bigot. Don't feel that just because you meditate and you are striving for enlightenment that you are in any way superior to any other person. Be even. Be easy. You will last longer on the pathway to self-discovery.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Buddhism, Discovery

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• The gay rights activists who yell 'bigot' at those who disagree with them are the Imams of America's cultural ghetto.

  Erick Erickson

  Ghetto, Gay, Rights

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• Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite

  Iain Banks

  Wings, Political, Polite

  Iain Banks (2008). “Dead Air”, p.118, Hachette UK

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• If support for traditional marriage is bigotry, then Barack Obama was a bigot until just before the 2012 election.

  Marco Rubio

  Support, Election, Barack

  "Rubio dives into gay marriage debate" by Burgess Everett, www.politico.com. July 23, 2014.

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• Religious people claim that it's just the fundamentalists of each religion that cause problems. But there's got to be something wrong with the religion itself if those who strictly adhere to its most fundamental principles are violent bigots and sexists.

  David G. McAfee

  Inspirational, God, Religious

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• A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil of holiness over vices, damns all mankind by the word of his power.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Thinking, Vices, Veils

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• For a woman to be at once a coquette and a bigot is more than the humblest of husbands can bear; she should mercifully choose between the two.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Husband, Two, Coquette

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• Charlie Hebdo: Satire was the father of true political freedom, born in the 18th century; the scourge of bigots and tyrants. Sing its praises.

  Simon Schama

  Father, Tyrants, Charlie Hebdo

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• Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Eye, Hypocrisy, Vices

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• Jesus, in fact, was typical of a certain kind of fanatical young idealist: at one moment holding forth, with tears in his eyes, about the need for universal love; at the next, furiously denouncing the morons, crooks and bigots who did not see eye to eye with him. It is very natural and very human behaviour. But it is not superhuman.

  Margaret E. Knight

  Jesus, Eye, Tears

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• It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.

  Criss Jami

  Arguing, Argument

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.65, Criss Jami

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• If you want to call me a bigot, fine.

  Jesse Helms

  Want, Fine, Call Me

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• When I began to talk publicly about the hatred that was in the Talmud, I was branded a hater, a bigot, and an anti-Semite by the media and by groups like the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. The ADL is a multimillion-dollar, worldwide organization whose whole purpose is to defame and discredit those who simply tell the truth about Jewish supremacism and hatred against Gentiles.

  David Duke

  Media, Organization, Ku Klux Klan

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• Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.

  Gelett Burgess

  Progress, World, Sanity

  Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”

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• By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Knavery, Gulls, Knaves

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• A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place; Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools, Bigots to Greece, and slaves to musty rules.

  Charles Churchill

  School, Race, Criticism

  Charles Churchill (1776). “Poems”, p.17

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• I don't slam doors in people's faces, and I'm not a bigot.

  Sherman Hemsley

  Doors, People, Faces

  "Sherman Hemsley, 'Jeffersons' Star, Is Dead at 74" by Mel Watkins, www.nytimes.com. July 24, 2012.

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