Bigotry Quotes - Page 5

• The American states have gone far in assisting the progress of truth; but they have stopped short of perfection. They ought to have given every honest citizen an equal right to enjoy his religion and an equal title to all civil emoluments, without obliging him to tell his religion. Every interference of the civil power in regulating opinion, is an impious attempt to take the business of the Deity out of his own hands; and every preference given to any religious denomination, is so far slavery and bigotry.

  Noah Webster

  Religious, Father, Hands

  Noah Webster (1785). “Sketches of American Policy Under the Following Heads: I. Theory of Government, II. Governments on the Eastern Continent, III. American States, Or, the Principles of the American Constitutions Contrasted with Those of European States, IV. Plan of Policy for Improving the Advantages and Perpetuating the Union of the American States”, p.27, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs... begins.

  Isaac Hayes

  Religious, Racist, World

  "Isaac Hayes Quits 'South Park'", www.foxnews.com. March 13, 2006.

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• I wanted them to be diverse. The whole underlying principle of the X-Men was to try to be an anti-bigotry story to show there's good in every person.

  Stan Lee

  Men, Trying, Principles

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• In some perfect world where human nature is less messy and history less fraught, any and all people who had ever suffered discrimination would find common cause, gathering together under one big anti-bigotry banner.

  Frank Bruni

  People, Perfect, Together

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• You tend to be afraid when someone seems foreign to you. But if you aren't careful, that can lead to bigotry.

  Jasmine Guy

  Racist, Careful, Seems

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• The soft bigotry of low expectations

  Michael Gerson

  Expectations, Lows, Inner City Schools

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• Show me the man who would go to heaven alone if he could, and in that man I will show you one who will never be admitted into heaven.

  Owen Feltham

  Men, Heaven, He Man

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• Human behavior is subject to the same laws as any other natural phenomenon. Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture. No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns. If the environment is unaltered, similar behavior will reoccur.

  Jacque Fresco

  Nature, Hate, Learning

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• We have a right to expect a police force that protects our citizens and behaves in a responsible manner... in the American conscience there is no room for bigotry and racism.

  George H. W. Bush

  Racism, Police, Citizens

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• Donald Trump bigotry, his bluster, his bullying, have become his campaign.

  Hillary Clinton

  Bullying, Campaigns, Trump

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I'm on the board of a national group called Faith in America. It's designed to fight religious-based bigotry.

  James McGreevey

  Religious, Fighting, America

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• When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.

  Alan King

  Father, Firsts, Oppression

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• I have fought too hard and for too long against discrimination based on race and color not to stand up against discrimination based on sexual orientation. I've heard the reasons for opposing civil marriage for same-sex couples. Cut through the distractions, and they stink of the same fear, hatred and intolerance I have known in racism and in bigotry.

  John Lewis

  Sex, Couple, Cutting

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• If your Bible tells you that gay people ought not be married in your church, don't tell them they can't be married at city hall. Marriage is a civil rite as well a civil right, and we can't let religious bigotry close the door to justice to anyone.

  Julian Bond

  Religious, Gay, Doors

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• If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Common Sense, Drug

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.247, Algora Publishing

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• We found out that you can't pass on acquired things like bigotry, prejudice, greed. That's all learned in your culture or your sub-culture

  Jacque Fresco

  Greed, Prejudice, Culture

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• Religion is as effectively destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religion, Indifference, Destroyed

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• What stands out to me in America was all the police vs. citizens turmoil. It's decades of bad policing, bad schooling, racism, bigotry and other factors finally spilling into mainstream culture. I would like to see America evolve on how the laws are enforced on the streets.

  Henry Rollins

  Law, Mainstream Culture, America

  Source: eluxemagazine.com

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• This unprecedented racism, bigotry and proto-fascist agenda that Donald Trump is trying to shove down America's throat has unleashed the resistance that will dethrone him.

  Tom Morello

  America, Racism, Trying

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• We have gone a long way toward civilization and religious tolerance, and we have a good example in this country. Here the many Protestant denominations, the Catholic Church and the Greek Orthodox Church do not seek to destroy one another in physical violence just because they do not interpret every verse of the Bible in exactly the same way. 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

  Country, Religious, Civilization

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• The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.

  James A. Baldwin

  Real, Men, White Man

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• The U.S. is a Government which to bigotry gives no sanction, to persecution no assistance.

  George Washington

  Government, Giving, Sanctions

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• America's only respectable form of bigotry is bigotry against religious people. And the only reason for hatred of religion is that it forces us to confront matters many would prefer to ignore.

  William Bennett

  Christian, Religious, America

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• Religious bigotry is a dull fire - hot enough to roast an ox, but with no lambent, luminous flame shooting up from it.

  Sara Coleridge

  Religious, Flames, Fire

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.260

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• There are, however, some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry — the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth.

  Emma Goldman

  Ignorance, Mean, Earth

  Emma Goldman (2012). “Living My Life”, p.207, Courier Corporation

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