Bigots Quotes

Bigots Quotes by Sonia Johnson, Jay Sekulow, Jeff Jarvis, Charles Churchill, Reza Aslan, Mark Twain and many others.

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The spirit of religious totalitarianism is abroad in the world; it is in the very air we breathe today in this land. Everywhere are those who claim to have a corner on righteousness, on direct access to God … The bigots of the world are having a heyday.
Sonia Johnson
The term religious cleansing is an accurate and effective way of expressing the current hostility and bigotry toward all civic expressions of religion… these religious cleansers use political and legal means of containment. They are America’s new anti-faith bigots.
Jay Sekulow
I can use my credit card to send money to the Ku Klux Klan, to antiabortion fanatics, or to anti-homosexual bigots, but I can’t use it to send money to WikiLeaks. The New York Times published the same documents. Should we tell Visa and MasterCard to stop payments to the Times?
Jeff Jarvis
A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place; Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools, Bigots to Greece, and slaves to musty rules.
Charles Churchill
God doesn’t make you a bigot. You’re just a bigot.
Reza Aslan
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
Mark Twain
Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave!
Charles Caleb Colton
Every new and successful example of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance.
James Madison
The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.
Ashley Montagu
I can’t tell Black people to fight a war that is Israel’s war. What kind of leader will you be, or should I be, to allow these babies Black, white and brown, to fight Israel’s war, because Zionists dominate the government of the United States of America and her banking system.
Louis Farrakhan
Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
Josh Billings
The sad truth about bigotry is that most bigots either don’t realize that they are bigots, or they convince themselves that their bigotry is perfectly justified.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
Joseph Addison
A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.
Dinesh D’Souza
The gay rights activists who yell ‘bigot’ at those who disagree with them are the Imams of America’s cultural ghetto.
Erick Erickson
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.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
I’m proud to say you are not a racist or a bigot or anything like that if you say that the Netherlands, as Australia, is a culture based on Christianity, on Judaism, on humanism, and it should not, nor ever will become a society based on Islamic failures.
Geert Wilders
Anti-Semitism does not signify opposition to Semitism. There is no such thing. It is an expression we Jews use effectively as a smear word used to brand as a bigot, like you guys, anyone who brings criticism against Jews. We use it against hate-mongers.
Harold Wallace Rosenthal
A civil right is the most powerful right anybody can have. And people who oppose them are bigots. So you categorize what you want as a civil right, you immediately establish your opponent as a bunch of bigot hayseeds making it easier to defeat them.
Rush Limbaugh
You can be a bigot in the US, but you can’t come out and openly declare your support for racial nationalism.
Max Blumenthal
He who is master of all opinions can never be the bigot of any.
William Rounseville Alger
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
Lord Byron
I don’t think that [thew are bigots] of [Donald Trump] supporters. Those supporters are from my hometown – I understand that suffering. I have written about it repeatedly from my hometown.
Tucker Carlson
When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected ‘I believe’ to ‘one does feel’.
Ronald Knox
There is no bigot like the atheist.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
I’m a free speech bigot. I don’t like censorship; I just don’t think it’s a good thing.
Fred Wilson
A writer once said to me, If you ever go to America, go either to the East Coast or the West Coast: The rest is a desert full of bigots. That’s what I think I’d like . . . a version of pastoral.
Philip Larkin
I Was An NFL Player Until I was Fired By Two Cowards and a Bigot.
Chris Kluwe
The criticism usually goes only to the religious right. ‘Bigots,’ ‘intolerant,’ ‘hateful’ – those labels get slapped on quickly and usually when we are winning debates and scoring points against liberals.
Kay Coles James
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.
Dick Gregory
Charlie Hebdo: Satire was the father of true political freedom, born in the 18th century; the scourge of bigots and tyrants. Sing its praises.
Simon Schama
If my mother were running for president and talked about a Muslim ban, I’d call her a bigot. If my mother claimed she didn’t know who David Duke was when I knew she did, I’d say that’s disqualifying. If my mother called an Indiana judge a Mexican, I would say that’s a bigoted remark.
Mika Brzezinski
By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull.
Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
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.
Cindy Sherman
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
Donald Trump’s a bigot without a shadow of a doubt.
Cenk Uygur
If bigots behave like bigots, it’s not a huge surprise.
Salman Rushdie
Hillary Clinton is a bigot.
Donald Trump
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.
Donald A. Norman
Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
Walt Whitman
Besides, when you say you’re a feminist it annoys the bigots and the old farts and the prissy ladies so much, it’s kind of irresistible.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Bigots see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them. It’s probably how they got to be bigots in the first place.
Jim Butcher
If support for traditional marriage is bigotry, then Barack Obama was a bigot until just before the 2012 election.
Marco Rubio
Bigots are actually funny to me in the way that people who still wear parachute pants give me a chuckle.
John Ridley
Bigot: A person who wins an argument with a liberal.
Rush Limbaugh
The extremes to which Western elites will go to avoid blaming radical Islam for terrorism cripples our efforts to protect innocent Muslims. Terrified of offending butchers, we insist that we’re the bigots, not them. We make excuses for monsters.
Ralph Peters
I assume that those who cling to old beliefs will be able to whisper their thoughts in the recesses of their homes, but if they repeat those views in public, they will risk being labeled as bigots and treated as such by governments, employers, and schools.
Samuel Alito
I’m not homophobic, I’m not a bigot, I’m not pandering to hatred.
Sonny Bono
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.
Vincent Price
I’m not any kind of a bigot, I’m not…
Samuel Alito
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.
Jan Brewer
Now the bigots have to get creative. Good luck coming up with slurs for Chechens. Go back where you came from, Ushanka head.
Aasif Mandvi
Hillary Clinton is a bigot who sees people of color only as votes, not as human beings worthy of a better future. She’s going to do nothing for African-Americans. She’s going to do nothing for the Hispanics.
Donald Trump
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.
Criss Jami
Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges.
Thomas Jefferson
I’ve seen how the left has used it to accuse opponents of their version of reform of being bigots and racists.
Marco Rubio
A bigot is a person who makes an idol of his commitments.
Howard Thurman
Don’t become a spiritual bigot. Don’t feel that just because you meditate and you are striving for enlightenment that you are in any way superior to any other person. Be even. Be easy. You will last longer on the pathway to self-discovery.
Frederick Lenz
I don’t slam doors in people’s faces, and I’m not a bigot.
Sherman Hemsley
He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.
Andrew Carnegie
I couldn’t join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.
Ron Reagan
Phillip Roth uses his Black women characters to make anti intellectual remarks about Black history month, begun by a man who reached intellectual heights that Roth will never attain. Roth is a petty bigot and his ignorant remarks about black culture expose him as a buffoon to scholars the world over.
Ishmael Reed
I’d rather be a straight ‘self-proclaimed homosexual’ than a racist, ignorant, hate-filled bigot in Rise Up Australia any day. This party wants to end multiculturalism and discriminate against anyone different. What this mob intends as a grievous insult, I take as a compliment. Long live equal rights.
Adam Bandt
Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Religious people claim that it’s just the fundamentalists of each religion that cause problems. But there’s got to be something wrong with the religion itself if those who strictly adhere to its most fundamental principles are violent bigots and sexists.
David G. McAfee
These days I am a teetotal, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded, conservative Christian bigot, but not a racist.
Jane Russell
Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . . Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
Gordon Allport
I think Donald Trump is a bigot and a misogynist.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Today you have millions of Americans that feel left out and out of place in their own country, struggling to live paycheck to paycheck, called bigots because they hold on to traditional values.
Marco Rubio
There’s the basket of deplorables, who are bigots of various stripes, misogynists, anti-Muslim, racists, homophobes.
George Packer
How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!
Logan Pearsall Smith
When I say things like ‘Marriage should be between one man and one woman,’ I’m called a bigot.
Rick Santorum
There is, unfortunately, too large a number of people who are just outright bigots in America. They’re nowhere near a majority. They’re a small number. But there are people who are in the Alt-Right who are just straight up bigots.
Van Jones
One of the most obvious uses of literature, I think, is its encouragement of tolerance… Bigots and fanatics seldom have any use for the arts, because they’re so preoccupied with their beliefs and actions that they can’t see them also as possibilities.
Northrop Frye
The list of the bigots and the list of the fools are always perfectly the same list!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
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.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
My ground is the Bible. Yea, I am a Bible-bigot. I follow it in all things, both great and small.
John Wesley
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.
Jean de la Bruyere
We don’t lump people by groups or special interests. And let me add, in the party of Lincoln there is no room for intolerance and not even a small corner for anti-Semitism or bigotry of any kind. Many people are welcome in our house, but not the bigots.
Ronald Reagan
The values that you bring to Sharia are whatever values you yourself have, if you are a bigot, misogynist and a violent person, your interpretation of Sharia will be bigoted, violent and misogynistic, if you are a democrat and a pluralist and someone who is peace loving, that’s how you’ll see the Sharia.
Mark Durie
In India the new government – the members of the radical Hindu Right who want India to be a ‘Hindu Nation’ – they’re bigots. Butchers. Massacres are their unofficial election campaigns – orchestrated to polarise communities and bring in the vote.
Arundhati Roy
There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.
Edward Abbey
There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.
George Bernard Shaw