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Quotes about Bigotry


Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

Mark Twain

Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.

G. K. Chesterton

Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You tend to be afraid when someone seems foreign to you. But if you aren't careful, that can lead to bigotry

Jasmine Guy

Bigotry's birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.

Bayard Ruskin

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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

Horace Greeley

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

Charles Caleb Colton

To take up half on trust, and half to try, Name it not faith but bungling bigotry.

John Dryden

[Bigotry's] birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.

Bayard Ruskin

So shall they build me altars in their zeal, Where knaves shall minister, and fools shall kneel: Where faith may mutter o'er her mystic spell, Written in blood--and Bigotry may swell The sail he spreads for Heav'n with blasts from hell!

Edward Moore

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