I was the son of an immigrant. I experienced bigotry, intolerance and prejudice, even as so many of you have. Instead of allowing these thing to embitter me, I took them as spurs to more strenuous effort.
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. - Mark Twain
Bigotry is based on deception, of oneself and of others. - DaShanne Stokes
Travel is fatal to narrowmindedness, prejudice and bigotry. - Mark Twain
The imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma. - Ursula K. Le Guin
To be an American is to be accosted by bigotry and enmity for the rights that you were told to appreciate. - Tennessee West
[...] rationalism is a form of intellectual bigotry which, in thinking about reality, tries to take it into account as little as possible. - José Ortega y Gasset
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. - G. K. Chesterton
The blend of fiction, bigotry and jingoism became known as 'yellow journalism.' Later, the phrase was shortened to 'journalism.'
When you enable bigotry against some people, you enable bigotry against us all. - DaShanne Stokes
Righteous indignation calls sin what it is. Bigotry is sin. Racism is sin. Oppression is sin. Control by fear is sin. Violence is sin. The quicker we can all admit that, the quicker the healing will begin. - Andrena Sawyer
Electing a bigot enables further bigotry. - DaShanne Stokes
The world knows of Rosa Parks because of a single, simple act of dignity and courage that struck a lethal blow to the foundations of legal bigotry. - Bill Clinton
Excessive praise arises from the same bigotry matrix as excessive criticism. - Stefan Molyneux
[ 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. - Josiah P. Mendum
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
If you'd combat bigotry, use honest language and call things out for what they really are. - DaShanne Stokes
The minute we look away, the minute we stop fighting back, that's the minute bigotry wins. - DaShanne Stokes
Bigotry lives not just in our words, but in our actions, thoughts, and institutions. - DaShanne Stokes
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. - Kofi Annan
Racism and religious bigotry are two essential pieces of baggage mankind carries as it moves from one century to the next. - R. N. Prasher
We must tell the world that even though we elected a bigot, bigotry will not prevail. - DaShanne Stokes
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. - Mark Twain
Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth. - Edwin Hubbell Chapin