Bigotry Quotes - Page 2

• The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  America, Liberty, Contradiction

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• We have a lot more work to do in our common struggle against bigotry and discrimination. I say "common struggle" because I believe very strongly that all forms of bigotry and discrimination are equally wrong and should be opposed by right-thinking Americans everywhere. Freedom from discrimination based on sexual orientation is surely a fundamental human right in any great democracy, as much as freedom from racial, religious, gender, or ethnic discrimination.

  Coretta Scott King

  Religious, Believe, Struggle

  Coretta Scott King's remarks at Opening Plenary Session of the 13th annual "Creating Change" conference of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force in Atlanta, Georgia, November 9, 2000.

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• Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic.

  David Lloyd George

  Stupid, Savages, Temper

  David Lloyd George (1923). “Zionism and Anti-Semitism: The Absurd Folly of Jew-baiting”

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• Here we now have the freedom of all religions, and I hope that never again will we have a repetition of religious bigotry, as we have had in certain periods of our own history. There is no room for that kind of foolishness here.

  Harry S. Truman

  Religious, Church, Rooms

  Harry S. Truman (1960). “Mr. Citizen”

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• There are no halfway measures against bigotry, hatred and anti-Semitism. It's got to be rejected totally.

  Abraham Foxman

  Hatred, Rejected, Anti Semitism

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• I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.

  Ron Reagan

  Party, Racist, Homophobes

  "Ron Reagan calls Iraq war unnecessary and optional". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.cnn.com. June 24, 2004.

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• All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Silent, Cruelty, Tyranny

  "Trayvon Martin Case Reminds Us: Never Be Silent" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2012.

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• I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, and anti-racism.

  George H. W. Bush

  Racism, Anti Racism, Anti Semitism

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• The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Inspirational, Eye, Science

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table”, p.144, Reprint Services Corporation

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• The bigotry of theologians is a malady which seems almost incurable.

  David Hume

  Theologian, Malady, Seems

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• Man has but little heeded the advice of the wise men. He has been - fatefully, if not willingly - less virtuous, less constant, less rational, less peaceful than he knows how to be, than he is fully capable of being. He has been led astray from the ways of peace and brotherhood by his addiction to concepts and attitudes of narrow nationalism, racial and religious bigotry, greed and lust for power.

  Ralph Bunche

  Wise, Wisdom, Religious

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• Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

  William Cowper

  Truth, Fighting, Shadow

  William Cowper (1835). “The Poems of William Cowper ...”, p.65

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• As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers.

  Ezra Cornell

  Country, Religious, Party

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• I have a deep-seated bias against hate and intolerance. I have a bias against racial and religious bigotry. I have a bias that leads me to believe in the essential goodness of my fellow man, which leads me to believe that no problem of human relations is ever insoluble.

  Ralph Bunche

  Religious, Hate, Believe

  Ralph J. Bunche “Fighter for Peace”

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• We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Self, Poison, Half

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• Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Racist, Literature, Opinion

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.22, 谷月社

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• 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, and that every person may here worship God according to the dictates of his own heart. In this enlightened Age and in this Land of equal liberty it is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining and holding the highest Offices that are known in the United States.

  George Washington

  Religious, Heart, Men

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1838). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.202

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• It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Mean, Conceited

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.101, Chartwell

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• Bill Maher is right to condemn religious practices that violate fundamental human rights. Religious communities must do more to counter extremist interpretations of their faith. But failing to recognize that religion is embedded in culture — and making a blanket judgment about the world’s second largest religion — is simply bigotry.

  Reza Aslan

  Religious, Failure, Rights

  "Bill Maher Isn’t the Only One Who Misunderstands Religion" by Reza Aslan, www.nytimes.com. October 8, 2014.

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• In the gospel of Jesus Christ, there is no place for ridicule, bullying, or bigotry.

  Neil L. Andersen

  Bullying, Jesus, Christ

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• I don't want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the political right. The hard right has no interest in religion except to manipulate it.

  Billy Graham

  Religious, Political, Religion

  Parade, February 01, 1981.

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• Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.

  James Madison

  Religious, Atheist, Ignorance

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• Our Constitution gives to bigotry no sanction.

  George Washington

  Giving, Constitution, Sanctions

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• Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the earth behind them strewn with corpses. Religions number in their ledgers more murders than the bloodiest tyrannies account for, and those whom humanity has called divine far surpass the most conscientious murderers in their thirst for slaughter.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Memories, Believe, Men

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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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. For happily the government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction - to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens.

  George Washington

  Patriotic, Exercise, Rights

  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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