Bigotry Quotes

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The man who is a bigot is the worst thing God has got. - Maya Angelou quote.
The man who is a bigot is the worst thing God has got.

prejudice

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue with bigots. - Jean Antoine Petit-Senn quote.
Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue with bigots.

virtue

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Travel

Bigot, n. One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain. - Ambrose Bierce quote.
Bigot, n. One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.
Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote.
Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

religion

I made a comparison at table some time since, which has often been quoted, and received many compliments. It was that of 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. quote.
I made a comparison at table some time since, which has often been quoted, and received many compliments. It was that of the mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts.
Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds. - Thomas Jefferson quote.
Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds.
The doctrine which, from the very first origin of religious dissensions, has been held by all bigots of all sects, when condensed into a few words and stripped of rhetorical disguise, is simply this: I am in the right, and you are in the wrong. When you are the stronger, you ought to tolerate me, for it is your duty to tolerate truth; but when I am the stronger, I shall persecute you, for it is my duty to persecute error. - Lord Macaulay quote.
The doctrine which, from the very first origin of religious dissensions, has been held by all bigots of all sects, when condensed into a few words and stripped of rhetorical disguise, is simply this: I am in the right, and you are in the wrong. When you are the stronger, you ought to tolerate me, for it is your duty to tolerate truth; but when I am the stronger, I shall persecute you, for it is my duty to persecute error.
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
With a grip that kills it. - Rabindranath Tagore quote.
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
With a grip that kills it.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. - Mark Twain quote.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.

Travel

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.