Bigotry Quotes - Page 13

• That's what [Frank] Sinatra did. He was the first artist to come out in a major way against anti-Semitism and racial bigotry. And those are huge things back in the 50s and 60s and 70s - and he was doing this in the 40s.

  Robert Davi

  Artist, Way, Firsts

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• [Donald] Trump phenomenon is just marbles with all this toxic stuff, the misogyny, the outright bigotry and so now people are left to try to pull this apart.

  Van Jones

  People, Trying, Toxic

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Maybe you're willing to tolerate a lot of bigotry from Donald Trump if you say, just change things, just change things.

  David Brooks

  Trump, Tolerate, Willing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Rescind the appointment of [Steve] Bannon. We will not be involved in the expansion of bigotry, of racism, sexism, homophobia.

  Bernie Sanders

  Racism, Expansion, Sexism

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• What Donald Trump has done is to make it possible for people who had racist, sexist, and all kinds of prejudices and bigotry to put them right out there.

  Hillary Clinton

  People, Prejudice, Racist

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I will not let somebody who traffics in bigotry and bullying become president of the United States.

  Hillary Clinton

  Bullying, President, United States

  "Hillary Clinton press availability in Compton, Calif.", www.politifact.com. June 6, 2016.

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• Even if we're facing bigotry or racism, we can still be successful.

  Ibtihaj Muhammad

  Successful, Racism, Stills

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• There will be strange ebbs and flows in the tide of race feelings.

  Amy Levy

  Race, Ebb And Flow, Feelings

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• Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way, like a thunderstorm, against the organized selfishness of human nature.

  Wendell Phillips

  Fighting, Government, Ideas

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.14

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• There is something in us, somehow, that, in the most degraded condition, we snatch at a chance to deceive ourselves into a fanciedsuperiority to others, whom we suppose lower in the scale than ourselves.

  Herman Melville

  Race, Class, Chance

  Herman Melville (1850). “White-jacket: or, The world in a man-of-war”, p.265

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• They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.

  Moliere

  Enlightenment, Blind, Reason

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• Actually I'm more culturally Muslim than religiously but being Muslim is an important part of my identity. As Muslim, I feel it's important to counter any form of bigotry, be it anti-Semitism, homophobia, racism, etc. These forms of hate share a common denominator of misinformation and intentional fear mongering.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Hate, Racism, Identity

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• How a regulation so unjust in itself, so foreign to the authority of Congress, and so hurtful to the sale of public land, and smelling so strongly of an antiquated bigotry, could have received the countenance of a committee is truly a matter of astonishment.

  James Madison

  Land, Hurtful, Atheism

  James Madison (1867). “1769-1793”, p.154

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• Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.

  Charles Dickens

  Dumb, Words Of Wisdom, Injustice And Oppression

  Charles Dickens (2006). “Nicholas Nickleby: Easyread Edition”, p.2, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We are redeemed one man at a time. There is no family pass ticket or park hopping pass to life. One ticket - one at a time. Man doesn't vanquish hatred or bigotry. The target keeps moving. From the blacks to the Irish; atheists to Christians. But as always there are a few leaders: Ben Franklin, John Quincy Adams, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, Fredrick Douglas, Booker T Washington, Ghandi and Martin Luther King. They know that the march toward freedom never ends, man must be ever vigilant and pray less with his lips and more with his legs.

  Glenn Beck

  Christian, Atheist, Kings

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• Bigotry is ever the child of ignorance, and the cultivation of the understanding is the only radical cure for it.

  Mary Hays

  Children, Ignorance, Understanding

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• Religion has failed us. Christ was not a Christian. Buddha was not a Buddhist. Mohammed was not a Mohammedan. And yet ever since the dawn of history, we have engaged in conflict and war and terrorism and murder and racism and ethnocentrism and bigotry and prejudice in the name of God.

  Deepak Chopra

  Christian, Buddhist, War

  "Deepak Chopra: Spiritual healing during times of crisis". CNN.com chat room, www.cnn.com. September 20, 2001.

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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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• It's easy to respond to the hate cries, usually carefully wrapped up in a flag. Perhaps hate is the greatest simplifier of them all. It's the man with the throb in his voice, the man with the easy formula, the man who tries to shout to my emotions instead of speaking to my mind, the man who is sure he is right that I run from like hell.

  Rae Foley

  Running, Hate, Men

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• No loose fish enters our quiet bay.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Quiet, Discrimination, Fishes

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• We were made to believe / our faces betrayed us. / Our bodies were loud / with yellow / screaming flesh / needing to be silenced / behind barbed wire.

  Janice Mirikitani

  War, Believe, Yellow

  Janice Mirikitani (1995). “We, the Dangerous: New and Selected Poems”, Ten Speed Press

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• I was strong and tough enough and charming. / How else is a fat Jew lesbian poet gonna get by? / Listening to the radio, staying home, staying alone, like / they mean us to. / Who means you to be left out? / Who don't?

  Elana Dykewomon

  Strong, Mean, Home

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• The caste system, in all its various forms, is always based on identifiable physical characteristics - sex, color, age.

  Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  Sex, Color, Racism

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• Well, there's a Book that says we're all sinners and I at least chose a sin that's made quite a few people happier than they were before they met me, a sin that's left me with very little time to consider other extremely popular moral misdemeanors, like usury, intolerance, bearing false tales, extortion, racial bigotry, and the casting of that first stone.

  Sally Stanford

  Book, People, Stones

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• It's 2014, we can't stand for bigotry like this, also I hate gay people

  Chris Broussard

  Hate, Gay, People

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