Bigotry Quotes - Page 9

• Let us not forget such words, and all they mean, as hatred, bitterness, and rancor greed, intolerance, bigotry; let us renew our faith and pledge to man, his right to be himself and free.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Hate, Mean, Equality

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• But would we know, whether the pretended prophet had really attained a just sentiment of morals? Let us attend to his narration; and we shall soon find, that he bestows praise on such instances of treachery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, bigotry, as are utterly incompatible with civilized society. No steady rule of right seems there to be attended to; and every action is blamed or praised, so far only as it is beneficial or hurtful to the true believers.

  David Hume

  Revenge, Islam, Hurtful

  David Hume (1758). “Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition”, p.135

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• America rejects bigotry. We reject every act of hatred against people of Arab background or Muslim faith America values and welcomes peaceful people of all faiths - Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, Hindu and many others. Every faith is practiced and protected here, because we are one country. Every immigrant can be fully and equally American because we're one country. Race and color should not divide us, because America is one country.

  George W. Bush

  Christian, Country, Inspiration

  Address on Compassionate Conservatism, delivered 30 April 2002, San Jose, California

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• The minorities have been confined to the city by a moat of bigotry.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Cities, Civil Rights, Moats

  Shirley Chisholm (2010). “Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.139, Take Root Media

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• More non-fringe, non-radical homosexuals emerge into public view every day. As the stereotype of the homosexual as antisocial deviant crumbles, a (political) party or faction that tolerates gay-baiting rhetoric in the name of 'family values' makes 'family values' look more and more like common bigotry.

  Jonathan Rauch

  Party, Gay, Views

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• From these Christians who came to [Avalon] to escape the bigotry of their own kind I learned something, at last, of the Nazarene, the carpenter's son who had attained Godhead in his own life and preached a rule of tolerance; and so I came to see that my quarrel was never with the Christ, but with his foolish and narrow priests who mistook their own narrowness for his.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Christian, Son, Tolerance

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• Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing anything that challenges the left vision.

  Thomas Sowell

  Reading, Years, Challenges

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• Every sect clamors for toleration when it is down.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Clamor, Sects, Toleration

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• There is no tariff so injurious as that with which sectarian bigotry guards its commodities. It dwarfs the soul by shutting out truths from other continents of thought, and checks the circulation of its own.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Soul, Tariffs, Commodity

  "Living Words". Book by Edwin Hubbel Chapin, 1869.

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• Pedantry and bigotry are millstones, able to sink the best book which carries the least part of their dead weight. The temper of the pedagogue suits not with the age; and the world, however it may be taught, will not be tutored.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Book, Age, World

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• The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Superstitions, Loses

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• At their core, misogyny and racism are very similar modes of thinking. Both diminish and disrespect a class of people based on a trait that is wholly distinct from their ideas, their carriage and their conduct.

  Dessa Darling

  Thinking, Class, Ideas

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• It's been our experience that any time a Muslim community anywhere seeks to expand or establish a mosque or some other kind of institution, there will be some type of opposition, when you scratch the surface, often there is a tremendous level of bigotry and stereotyping in the opposition.

  Ibrahim Hooper

  Community, Scratches, Mosques

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• If I do not fight bigotry wherever it is, bigotry is thereby strengthened. And to the degree that it is strengthened, it will, thereby, have the power to turn on me.

  Bayard Rustin

  Fighting, Degrees, Turns

  Bayard Rustin (2003). “Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• The only way by which you and I can wean orthodox Hindus from their bigotry is by patient argument and correct conduct.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Way, Patient, Argument

  Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Hindu Dharma”, p.106, Orient Paperbacks

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• The seeds of destruction lie in the definition of "chosen-ness" and can easily blossom into bigotry. It's not inevitable but it needs constant care to avoid.

  Toni Morrison

  Lying, Needs, Care

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• There's a link between bigotry and bad spelling.

  David Mitchell

  Links, Spelling

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• My history of the Jesuits is not elegantly written, but is supported by unquestionable authorities, is very particular and very horrible. Their restoration is indeed "a step toward darkness," cruelty, perfidy, despotism, death and I wish we were out of danger of bigotry and Jesuitism.

  John Adams

  Darkness, Historical, Wish

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• True affection and love have a purity which shall always prevail over bigotry.

  Libba Bray

  And Love, Affection, Purity

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.338, Simon and Schuster

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• In the common esteem, not only are the only good aboriginals dead ones, but all aboriginals are either sacred or contemptible according to the length of time they have been dead.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Racism, Sacred, Common

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• There is going to come a day when everyone here is going to need keen observation and wit to ridicule George W. Bush. But when that day comes, all we're going to have are tired puns and goofy looks. Because as you would say, we're suffering from the soft bigotry of low expectorations.

  Jon Stewart

  Tired, Suffering, Needs

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• We've got to get rid of this discrimination, this chilling, this bigotry toward gays and lesbians that are reflected in literally hundreds and hundreds of statutes and regulations in this country.

  Ralph Nader

  Country, Gay, Regulation

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• It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received, and even the bigotry with which it is defended, there is no hospitality shown to, there is no appreciation of, the order of truth with which it deals. I know of no book that has so few readers. There is none so truly strange, and heretical, and unpopular. To Christians, no less than Greeks and Jews, it is foolishness and a stumbling-block.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Christian, Appreciation, Block

  A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)

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• Mohammed praises [instances of] tretchery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, and bigotry that are utterly incompatible with civilized society.

  David Hume

  Revenge, Praise, Cruelty

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• Examples of hostility toward religious values and those who hold them abound... This antireligious bigotry is not confined to the classroom.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Christian, Religious, Example

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