Bigotry

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 out kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.

- Charles Dickens Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

- Heraclitus Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

- Maya Angelou Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence of it in their opinions and lives that they have heard it. It would not leave them narrow-minded and bigoted.

- Henry David Thoreau Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We should have learnt by now that laws and court decisions can only point the way. They can establish criteria of right and wrong. And they can provide a basis for rooting out the evils of bigotry and racism. But they cannot wipe away centuries of oppression and injustice however much we might desire it.

- Hubert Humphrey Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Millions of people understand that it's not bigotry to believe that marriage is between a man and a woman, and it's not right-wing to think that children need a mother and a father, not two mothers and two fathers.

- Gary Bauer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

All his life, he fought against bigotry, racism and discrimination. He wasn't going to come and be buried in a situation like that. I had to assure him it was no longer a segregated plot.

- Ken Lunt Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There is no bigotry like that of free thought run to seed.

- Horace Greeley Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

- Edwin Hubbel Chapin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

What has been the fruit of religion Pride and indolence in the clergy, ignorance in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.

- James Madison Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I don't want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the four horsemen of calumny fear, ignorance, bigotry, and smear.

- Margaret Chase Smith Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Americans of all faiths should be concerned whenever a house of worship is threatened. Religious and political leaders must speak out against the anti-Muslim bigotry that can prompt such threats.

- Hussam Ayloush Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Bigotry and hatred and prejudice rise and fall depending on certain situations.

- Jack Levin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It must be shown that something that is already criminal was motivated by bigotry or bias because of, in this case, racial factors.

- David Waren Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I find some of the rhetoric being used against this deal shameful and irresponsible. There is bigotry coming out here.

- James Zogby Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

- U.S. Constitution Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

What started this and drives this is bigotry.

- James Zogby Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There are limits when free speech becomes bigotry. We are trying to set limits while still protecting free speech.

- Lanny Davis Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The racism, bigotry and poverty in the South made me a liberal.

- James Todd Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.

- Coretta King Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Bigotry and judgment are the height of insecurity.

- Jasmine Guy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The skinhead phenomena originally was not tied to hatred and bigotry when it began in England.

- Barry Morrison Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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.

- Steve Wozniak Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I see the policy of opposing same-sex marriages or unions, whatever you call it, as bigotry or discrimination.

- Patrick J. Kennedy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes