Quotes about Bigot

Bigot: A person who wins an argument with a liberal. Votes: 3

I Was An NFL Player Until I was Fired By Two Cowards and a Bigot, Votes: 3

Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain. Votes: 3

A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials. Votes: 2

I'm not any kind of a bigot, I'm not. Votes: 2

I don't slam doors in people's faces, and I'm not a bigot. Votes: 2

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions! Votes: 2

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave. Votes: 2

He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave. Votes: 2

He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave. Votes: 2

Am I an Apple bigot? No. I can critique their products and their customer service philosophy. But overall, they do better than any other player. Votes: 2

My dad was such a bigot. He was a horrible, self-centred person. He was really racist and he'd talk about the Jews and blacks and Catholics even. Votes: 2

I'm always told that what I say is controversial. Why is it controversial? Because I speak from a tradition that has now fallen out of favor with the dominant media in this country. And so when I say things like marriage should be between one man and one woman, I'm called a bigot. Votes: 2

Don't become bigoted about bigots. Votes: 1

Do not give voice to bigotry. Votes: 1

There is no bigot like the atheist. Votes: 1

I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, and anti-racism. Votes: 1

Bigotry does not consort easily with free trade. Votes: 1

Bigotry and judgment are the height of insecurity. Votes: 1

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has. Votes: 1

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth. Votes: 1

Bigotry ravashes the human spirt like the winds of wildfire. Votes: 1

Will future ages believe that such stupid bigotry ever existed! Votes: 1

Fear and Bigotry are bred fom isolation and ignorance.-Shekinah Votes: 1

Nor bigots who but one way see, through blinkers of authority. Votes: 1

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot. Votes: 1

There's nothing I love more in life than turning around a bigot. Votes: 1

I'm not homophobic, I'm not a bigot, I'm not pandering to hatred. Votes: 1

Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition. Votes: 1

More than half described Christians as literalistic, anti-intellectual, judgmental, self-righteous, and bigoted. Votes: 1

The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof. Votes: 1

When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'. Votes: 1

When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel' Votes: 1

With ignorance comes fear- from fear comes bigotry. Education is the key to acceptance. Votes: 1

I have never met a bigot who was a reader as a child. (ix) Votes: 1

Fear and bigotry don't need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes. Votes: 1

It was obvious that bigotry was never a one-way operation, that hatred bred hatred! Votes: 1

Wisdom must yield to superstition's rules,Who arms with bigot zeal the hand of fools. Votes: 1

The idea that education will lead to a lessening of bigotry is just factually incorrect. Votes: 1

These days I am a teetotal, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded, conservative Christian bigot, but not a racist. Votes: 1

Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology. Votes: 1

I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists. Votes: 1

As an African-American, I know all too well the negative thoughts and feelings hatred and bigotry cause. Votes: 1

The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer. Votes: 1

The list of the bigots and the list of the fools are always perfectly the same list! Votes: 1

I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing. Votes: 1

I'm on the board of a national group called Faith in America. It's designed to fight religious-based bigotry. Votes: 1

There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation; refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry. Votes: 1

All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent. Votes: 1

Cat hate reflects an ugly, stupid, loutish, bigoted spirit. There can be no compromise with this Ugly Spirit. Votes: 1

Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs. Votes: 1

Bigotry or prejudice in any form is more than a problem; it is a deep-seated evil within our society. Votes: 1

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. Votes: 1

When I say things like 'Marriage should be between one man and one woman,' I'm called a bigot. Votes: 1

Having love in your heart doesn't count for much if what comes out of your mouth is ugly and bigoted. Votes: 1

Bigots are actually funny to me in the way that people who still wear parachute pants give me a chuckle. Votes: 1

What NPR did, I'm very proud of, and what NPR stood for is non-racist, non-bigoted, straightforward telling of the news. Votes: 1

A good friend of mine once said, I have never met a bigot who was a reader as a child. Votes: 1

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it. (Bengali poet and novelist, 1861-1941) Votes: 1

The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts. Votes: 1

The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts. Votes: 1

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts. Votes: 1

I trust people who are violent about art, as long as they aren't closed-minded. But, unfortunately, most art blowhards are also art bigots. Votes: 1

It's odd that the people who worry whether certain plays are morally offensive so rarely worry about the moral offensiveness of war, poverty, bigotry. Votes: 1

Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue. Votes: 1

...no doubt much will be said elsewhere by the armies of bigotry and punditry. Let them volley and thunder. I'll speak of bookish things. Votes: 1

I don't much care who is gay or straight or married or not. I mostly notice if they are brave enough to confront bigotry. Votes: 1

You're absolutely right: Bob Grant is a racist, Bob Grant is a bigot, he's a despicable talk show host and I agree with that. Votes: 1

I don't mind bigots. You're allowed to be bigoted, if that makes you happy. Just do it at home. And not around the children. Votes: 1

You know, bigotry isn't relevant to just the South. It never was. But I'm very grateful that I don't know what it's like from experience. Votes: 1

When it comes to fighting for freedom, those who are willing to fight should not be limited by our bigotry. Only rewarded with our gratitude. Votes: 1

What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period. Votes: 1

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end. Votes: 1

The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly. Votes: 1

I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man. Votes: 1

It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong. Votes: 1

The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about. Votes: 1

Ah well, I suppose that's the problem with trying to make others follow your own beliefs: what starts out as spiritual ardor too often becomes arrogance and bigotry. Votes: 1

Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always will be the last resort of the boob and the bigot. Votes: 1

The bigotry question goes both ways. There's a lot more anti-Christian bigotry today than there is concerning the other side. None of it gets covered by the news media. Votes: 1

I still find that a kind of stricture of the heart happens when I see any form of bigoted or racist behaviour. I get an actual pain in my heart. Votes: 1

Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood. Votes: 1

[Josiah P. Mendum memorial at Paine Hall][He turned] the strait-laced Boston of sixty years ago [into] the enlightened Hub of today, . . . to 'destroy bigotry and uproot the evils of superstition. Votes: 1

Nixon's offences had been so long in the past, so much part of a different era that he now seemed like some lovable but bigoted uncle you tolerated at Christmas and Thanksgiving. Votes: 1

Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy. Votes: 1

Prejudice and bigotry are brought down...by the sheer force of determination of individuals to succeed and the refusal of a human being to let prejudice define the parameters of the possible. Votes: 1

He disliked nearly all women, and especially the young and pretty ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers-out of unorthodoxy. Votes: 1

I try to support groups that are about educating people about different races, different religions, different cultures and different situations so that we can break down the barriers of prejudice and bigotry. Votes: 1

It is founded on the worst instincts of mankind. At its best, it is intolerant and bigoted. At its worst, it is sadistic and brutal. Between these two poles it has its existence. Votes: 1

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, 'The good outnumber you, and we always will.' Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated. Votes: 1

I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.' Votes: 1

Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience. Votes: 1

Supporting the definition of marriage as one man and one woman is not anti-gay: it is pro-traditional marriage. And if support for traditional marriage is bigotry, then Barack Obama was a bigot until just before the 2012 election. Votes: 1

New Rule: There's only one thing to say about the Christian Film and Television Commission giving me the Bigoted Bile Award and naming Religulous the number-one Most Unbearable Movie of 2008: Thank you! You hate me, you really hate me! Votes: 1

That is still the case in this country for too many students, the soft bigotry of low expectations. If you don't expect them to learn, if you don't expect them to succeed - then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Votes: 1

Even after they fired me, called me a bigot and publicly advised me to only share my thoughts with a psychiatrist, I did not call for defunding NPR. I am a journalist, and NPR is an important platform for journalism. Votes: 1

It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance of sects... that is was deemed advisable to exclude from the national government all power to act upon the subject. Votes: 1

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception. Votes: 1

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. Votes: 1

Of course, the majority of us would speak up in the face of outrageous bigotry, but do we speak up in a social situation when someone casually refers to something as 'gay'? If we don't, we are standing with the homophobes whom we are quietly fighting. Votes: 1

But the bigots always see those whom they hate as morally corrupt, as if they confuse their own aesthetics of disgust and fear with actual ethical critique, rationalizing their emotional response, and enforcing their moral certainties with passion, establishing them-selves, subtly or brutally, as arbiters of reason. Votes: 1

The Left masks its distaste for the Bible's condemnation of homosexuality in a straw man argument that Bible believers are violent bigots. They are not. Citing the Bible doesn't make you a bigot against human beings - it makes you a bigot against sin, which is a good thing. Votes: 1

Hindu fundamentalism is a contradiction in terms, since Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals; there is no such thing as a Hindu heresy. How dare a bunch of goondas shrink the soaring majesty of the Vedas and the Upanishads to the petty bigotry of their brand of identity politics? Votes: 1

We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama. Votes: 1

And give me insults, give meeconomic discrimination, give methe darkened parking lot of a windowless queer bar, give me fleets of bigots and books bannedin libraries across america, feed the worldwith lies about my life and plop a secondhelping of oppression on my plateand thank you for not making me straight. Votes: 1

Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce; for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms. Votes: 1

I'm surprised at the extent of the bigotry. But it really plays out when companies or schools take a side and prohibit the other platform at all. We Mac users should be good even when the other side is bad. We should do what we can to accept the other platforms. Votes: 1

I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony. Votes: 1

Most moral relativists believe that tolerance of cultural diversity is better, in some important sense, than outright bigotry. This may be perfectly reasonable, of course, but it amounts to an overarching claim about how all human beings should live. Moral relativism, when used as a rationale for tolerance of diversity, is self-contradictory. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

White supremacy is the conscious or unconscious belief or the investment in the inherent superiority of some, while others are believed to be innately inferior. And it doesn't demand the individual participation of the singular bigot. It is a machine operating in perpetuity, because it doesn't demand that somebody be in place driving. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

The urge to grow and develop, present in all forms of life, becomes perverted in the Bisy Backson's mind into a constant struggle to change everything (the Bulldozer Backson) and everyone (the Bigoted Backson) else but himself, and interfere with things he has no business interfering with, including practically every form of life on earth. Votes: 1

[The Truth Seeker is] Devoted to: science, morals, free thought, free discussions, liberalism, sexual equality, labor reform, progression, free education and whatever tends to elevate and emancipate the human race.Opposed to: priestcraft, ecclesiasticism, dogmas, creeds, false theology, superstition, bigotry, ignorance, monopolies, aristocracies, privileged classes, tyranny, oppression, and everything that degrades or burdens mankind mentally or physically. Votes: 1

Initially, the purveyors of racism need no more than the silent acquiescence of the public ... [I]t is never too soon to confront bigotry and racism whenever, wherever, and in whatever form it raises its ugly head. It is incumbent upon all people to confront even the slightest hint of racist thought or action with zero tolerance. Votes: 1

That's what's so ironic about the conservative backlash against BDSMers. With increased visibility comes increased bigotry, and conservatives continue to rally against kinky events by local groups to get them shut down. What the anti-kink fanatics don't understand about us is that we're geeks. Sex nerds. SM intellectuals. We pay money to spend a weekend going to classes. Votes: 1

What a foreigner may see in a fool, a bigot, an idiot or others of their kinds? Really I cannot say. As normalcy goes beyond natural light and extremism is sometimes loosely defined. But every fool must be a foreigner to his potential in the positive light, a degenerate in the negative light. In between potentials is where normalcy may hide. Votes: 1

At the level of high culture with which this book is concerned, active bigotry is probably fairly rare. It is also hardly ever necessary, since the social context is so far from neutral. To act in a way both sexist and racist, to maintain one's class privilege, it is only necessary to act in the customary, ordinary, usual, even polite manner. Votes: 1

Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of a narrow mind, of an uncultivated intelligence. Bigotry is always ignorant, and the wise boy, who will become the wise man, tries to understand and to see the truth in ideas with which he does not agree. Votes: 1

All Abraham's sons were taught that God would progressively reveal Himself. God's wholeness has yet to be realized. There will always be gaps in our understanding. Why should we fill those gaps with suspicion, bigotry and accusations? Men do it to women; Jews do it to Christians; Christians do it to Muslims. Yet, all these have an implied duty to Abraham.pg 54 Votes: 1

There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit, 'who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us. Votes: 1

What white middle America loathes these days are poor and poorish people, especially the kind who look and sound like they just might live in a house trailer. They will swear on a stack of Lands' End catalogs that they are not bigots, but, human nature being what it is, we are all kicking someone else's dog around, whether we admit it or not. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Hillary Clinton is a bigot. Votes: 0

There is no bigot like the atheist. Votes: 0

If you want to call me a bigot, fine. Votes: 0

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.... Votes: 0

I think Donald Trump is a bigot and a misogynist. Votes: 0

God doesn't make you a bigot. You're just a bigot. Votes: 0

Donald Trump's a bigot without a shadow of a doubt. Votes: 0

A bigot is a person who makes an idol of his commitments. Votes: 0

There's no great, white bigot; there's just about 200 million little white bigots out there. Votes: 0

He who is master of all opinions can never be the bigot of any. Votes: 0

I think that [Donald] Trump is frankly a bigot. He has a racist history. Votes: 0

If support for traditional marriage is bigotry, then Barack Obama was a bigot until just before the 2012 election, Votes: 0

The artist must possess at least as much conviction as does his enemy, the dogmatic, mealy-mouthed, anti-art bigot. Votes: 0

The gay rights activists who yell 'bigot' at those who disagree with them are the Imams of America's cultural ghetto. Votes: 0

My ground is the Bible. Yea, I am a Bible-bigot. I follow it in all things, both great and small. Votes: 0

You can be a bigot in the US, but you can't come out and openly declare your support for racial nationalism. Votes: 0

The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts. Votes: 0

I found from working on the film that I am a bigot, at times. And that I am also a coward, at times. Votes: 0

President Obama and Hillary Clinton, every time you disagree with them it doesn't matter which subject it is, you're a bigot or you're a racist. Votes: 0

There is only one religion and that is to love unconditionally. Those who kill in the name of religion are the bigot and biggest nonbeliever. Votes: 0

Am I an Apple bigot? No. I can critique their products and their customer service philosophy. But overall, they do better than any other player. Votes: 0

My dad was such a bigot. He was a horrible, self-centred person. He was really racist and he'd talk about the Jews and blacks and Catholics even Votes: 0

For a woman to be at once a coquette and a bigot is more than the humblest of husbands can bear; she should mercifully choose between the two. Votes: 0

Obama was gonna get everything he wanted in the first year because, if anybody opposed it, they were gonna be accused of being a racist, or bigot, or who knows what. Votes: 0

This type of discourse in the campaign is just unwarranted. But it was started by Ms.[Hillary] Clinton. Ms. Clinton has started the idea of calling Donald Trump those types of names [bigot]. Votes: 0

A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil of holiness over vices, damns all mankind by the word of his power. Votes: 0

Being no bigot myself, I am disposed to indulge the professors of Christianity in the church that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct, plainest, easiest and least liable to exception. Votes: 0