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“I was strong and tough enough and charming. / How else is a fat Jew lesbian poet gonna get by? / Listening to the radio, staying home, staying alone, like / they mean us to. / Who means you to be left out? / Who don't?”

Mean Enough Home Left Strong Poet Listening Tough Radio Jew Fats Staying Bigotry Outsiders Charming Left Out

Author:Elana Dykewomon

“We were made to believe / our faces betrayed us. / Our bodies were loud / with yellow / screaming flesh / needing to be silenced / behind barbed wire.”

World Believe Made War Body Faces Behinds Racism Flesh Loud War Of The Worlds Bigotry Yellow World War Ii World War I Betrayed Wire Barbed Wire

Book:We, the Dangerous: New and Selected Poems

Source: We, the Dangerous: New and Selected Poems

“It's 2014, we can't stand for bigotry like this, also I hate gay people”

People Hate Gay I Hate Bigotry Gay People

Author:Chris Broussard

“No loose fish enters our quiet bay.”

Quiet Fishes Discrimination Bigotry

Author:Gertrude Atherton

“Bigotry and judgment are the height of insecurity.”

Judgment Height Insecurity Racist Bigotry

Author:Jasmine Guy

“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.”

Ifs Enough Care Gay Married Brave Racist Bigotry

Author:Jasmine Guy

“It took many years to cleanse Arabia of its “false idols.” It will take many more to cleanse Islam of its new false idols-bigotry and fanaticism-worshipped by those who have replaced Muhammad's original vision of tolerance and unity with their own ideals of hatred and discord. But the cleansing is inevitable, and the tide of reform cannot be stopped. The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it.”

Years Vision Ideals Hatred Originals Unity Islam Tolerance Reform Inevitable Islamic Bigotry Idols Tides Replaced Fanaticism Muhammad Reformation Arabia Cleansing Discord

Author:Reza Aslan

“If support for traditional marriage is bigotry, then Barack Obama was a bigot until just before the 2012 election.”

Ifs Support Election Traditional Barack Bigotry Bigots Traditional Marriage 2012 Election

Author:Marco Rubio

“Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations.”

America Excuse Explanation Poison Bigotry No Excuses

Author:Charles Schumer

“Religion has failed us. Christ was not a Christian. Buddha was not a Buddhist. Mohammed was not a Mohammedan. And yet ever since the dawn of history, we have engaged in conflict and war and terrorism and murder and racism and ethnocentrism and bigotry and prejudice in the name of God.”

War Christian Names Christ Conflict Racism Prejudice Murder Terrorism Buddhist Dawn Engaged Bigotry

Author:Deepak Chopra

“I don't draw any distinctions between forms of bigotry or forms of ideology that lose sight of the humanity of people. I can't stand white supremacy. I can't stand male supremacy. I can't stand imperial subjugation. I can't stand homophobia.”

People I Can Form Humanity Loses White Draws Sight Males Ideology Distinction Bigotry White Supremacy Homophobia Supremacy Subjugation

Author:Cornel West

“We are redeemed one man at a time. There is no family pass ticket or park hopping pass to life. One ticket - one at a time. Man doesn't vanquish hatred or bigotry. The target keeps moving. From the blacks to the Irish; atheists to Christians. But as always there are a few leaders: Ben Franklin, John Quincy Adams, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, Fredrick Douglas, Booker T Washington, Ghandi and Martin Luther King. They know that the march toward freedom never ends, man must be ever vigilant and pray less with his lips and more with his legs.”

“Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.”

Source: Nicholas Nickleby: Easyread Edition

“How a regulation so unjust in itself, so foreign to the authority of Congress, and so hurtful to the sale of public land, and smelling so strongly of an antiquated bigotry, could have received the countenance of a committee is truly a matter of astonishment.”

Matter Atheism Land Authority Congress Positive Atheism Bigotry Regulation Committees Unjust Countenance Hurtful Astonishment Public Lands

Book:1769-1793

Source: 1769-1793

“They [zealots] would have everybody be as blind as themselves: to them, to be clear-sighted is libertinism.”

Reason Clear Enlightenment Blind Bigotry Zealot

Author:Moliere

“There is something in us, somehow, that, in the most degraded condition, we snatch at a chance to deceive ourselves into a fanciedsuperiority to others, whom we suppose lower in the scale than ourselves.”

Chance Race Class Conditions Scales Bigotry Deceiving

Book:White-jacket: or, The world in a man-of-war

Source: White-jacket: or, The world in a man-of-war

“Whenever we discover a dislike in us, toward any one, we should ever be a little suspicious of ourselves.”

Should Littles Bigotry Dislike Hostility Suspicious

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)

“Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. You toodle along, thinking that all gay men wear leather after dark and should never, ever be permitted around a Little League field. And then one day your best friend from college, the one your kids adore, comes out to you.”

Thinking Men Should Littles Kids Faces Humanity Fall Dark Fields College Gay One Day League Bigotry Homosexuality Stereotype Adore Leather Homophobia Your Best Friend Gay Men Little League

Book:Loud and Clear

Source: Loud and Clear

“Modesty and taste are questions of latitude and education; the more people know,--the more their ideas are expanded by travel, experience, and observation,--the less easily they are shocked. The narrowness and bigotry of women are the result of their circumscribed sphere of thought and action.”

People Knows Ideas Action Results Taste Observation Bigotry Spheres Modesty Shocked Conservatism Sophistication Thoughts And Actions Latitude Travel Experience

Book:Elizabeth Cady Stanton: As Revealed in Her Letters & Diary (Abridged)

Source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton: As Revealed in Her Letters & Diary (Abridged)

“America's only respectable form of bigotry is bigotry against religious people. And the only reason for hatred of religion is that it forces us to confront matters many would prefer to ignore.”

People Matter Reason Christian America Form Force Religious Hatred Bigotry Respectable

Author:William Bennett

“We live in an age in which only one prejudice is tolerated - anti-Christian bigotry... Today, the only group you can hold up to public mockery is Christians. Attacks on the Church and Christianity are common.”

Age Today Christian Church Religious Common Christianity Groups Prejudice Bigotry Mockery Anti Christian

Book:What if Jesus Had Never Been Born?

Source: What if Jesus Had Never Been Born?

“Perhaps the worst example of Smithsonian contempt for Jesus Christ is seen in its 1994 publication of a coffee-table book entitled Smithsonian Time Lines of the Ancient World ... This flagrant display of religious bigotry and discrimination in a book officially sponsored by the Smithsonian is intellectually and academically dishonest.”

“I am appalled by the great injustice being perpetrated by those Jewish organizations that engage in anti-Christian bigotry.”

Christian Religious Organization Injustice Bigotry Anti Christian

Book:America's Real War

Source: America's Real War

“On the one side was bigotry, ignorance, hatred, superstition, every sort of blackness that the human mind is capable of. On the other side was sense.”

Mind Humans Christian Sides Religious Ignorance Capable Hatred Bigotry Human Mind Superstitions Blackness

Author:H. L. Mencken

“There is a bigotry rampant in America, against evangelicals. It is the last respectable bigotry.”

Christian Lasts America Religious Bigotry Respectable

Author:Michael Novak

“Antireligious bigotry is not confined to the classroom.”

Christian Religious Bigotry Classroom Confined

Author:Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

“Examples of hostility toward religious values and those who hold them abound... This antireligious bigotry is not confined to the classroom.”

Christian Values Religious Example Bigotry Classroom Hostility Confined Religious Values

Author:Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

“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.”

Way Mean Use Christian America Political Term Religious Expression Currents Bigotry Accurate Hostility Civics Cleansing Bigots Containment

Author:Jay Sekulow

“With the help of pressure groups, government now has crossed over into the final frontier of bigotry, what writer and Catholic theologian Michael Novak calls 'Christophobia .' Traditional Christians and Jews are the new counterculture - aliens in a land their forefathers' beliefs and values established and built.”

“In some perfect world where human nature is less messy and history less fraught, any and all people who had ever suffered discrimination would find common cause, gathering together under one big anti-bigotry banner.”

People World Humans Bigs Together Causes Perfect Common Human Nature Discrimination Bigotry Gathering Messy Banner A Perfect World Gathering Together

Author:Frank Bruni

“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.”

Should Fighting Willing Gratitude Bigotry Fighting For Freedom

Author:John Ridley

“Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times.”

Humans Form Rights Racism Abuse Slavery Human Rights Bigotry Sexism Subordination

Author:John Prendergast

“Our Constitution gives to bigotry no sanction.”

Giving Constitution Bigotry Sanctions

Author:George Washington

“In the common esteem, not only are the only good aboriginals dead ones, but all aboriginals are either sacred or contemptible according to the length of time they have been dead.”

Has Beens Common Racism Sacred Esteem Length Bigotry Imperialism Aboriginal

Author:Mary Hunter Austin

“One can fall into the soft bigotry of low expectations.”

Fall Lows Expectations Bigotry Low Expectations

Author:Gerald Chertavian

“Every sect clamors for toleration when it is down.”

Bigotry Sects Toleration Clamor

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“There is no tariff so injurious as that with which sectarian bigotry guards its commodities. It dwarfs the soul by shutting out truths from other continents of thought, and checks the circulation of its own.”

Soul Checks Bigotry Continents Commodity Circulation Dwarfs Tariffs

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Pedantry and bigotry are millstones, able to sink the best book which carries the least part of their dead weight. The temper of the pedagogue suits not with the age; and the world, however it may be taught, will not be tutored.”

World May Book Age Able Taught Weight Suits Carrie Bigotry Temper Pedantry

Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

“The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it.”

Loses Bigotry Superstitions

Author:Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“At their core, misogyny and racism are very similar modes of thinking. Both diminish and disrespect a class of people based on a trait that is wholly distinct from their ideas, their carriage and their conduct.”

People Thinking Ideas Class Racism Core Bigotry Traits Misogyny Diminish Disrespect Carriages

Author:Dessa Darling

“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.”

World Ends Belief Religious This World Racist Satire Bigotry Intolerance Religious Belief Religious Intolerance Political Satire

Author:Isaac Hayes

“It's been our experience that any time a Muslim community anywhere seeks to expand or establish a mosque or some other kind of institution, there will be some type of opposition, when you scratch the surface, often there is a tremendous level of bigotry and stereotyping in the opposition.”

Kind Community Levels Type Institutions Surface Opposition Bigotry Stereotype Scratches Mosques Muslim Community

Author:Ibrahim Hooper

“If I do not fight bigotry wherever it is, bigotry is thereby strengthened. And to the degree that it is strengthened, it will, thereby, have the power to turn on me.”

Ifs Turns Fighting Degrees Bigotry Turn-on

Book:Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin

Source: Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin

“The only way by which you and I can wean orthodox Hindus from their bigotry is by patient argument and correct conduct.”

Way I Can Argument Patient Orthodox Bigotry Hinduism

Book:Hindu Dharma

Source: Hindu Dharma

“The seeds of destruction lie in the definition of "chosen-ness" and can easily blossom into bigotry. It's not inevitable but it needs constant care to avoid.”

Needs Care Lying Destruction Constant Definitions Seeds Chosen Inevitable Bigotry

Author:Toni Morrison

“My history of the Jesuits is not elegantly written, but is supported by unquestionable authorities, is very particular and very horrible. Their restoration is indeed "a step toward darkness," cruelty, perfidy, despotism, death and I wish we were out of danger of bigotry and Jesuitism.”

Wish Steps Darkness Written Danger Particular Authority Historical Horrible Cruelty Bigotry Restoration Despotism Jesuit Perfidy

Author:John Adams

“I don't want to die and leave a few sad songs and a hump in the ground as my only monument. I want to leave a world that is liberated from trash, pollution, racism, nation-states, nation-state wars and armies, from pomp, bigotry, parochialism, a thousand different brands of untruth and licentious, usurious economics.”

Source: Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson

“Think not the bigotry of another is any excuse for your own.”

Thinking Excuse Bigotry

Book:The Works of the Late Reverend John Wesley, A.M.: From the Latest London Edition with the Last Corrections of the Author, Comprehending Also Numerous Translations, Notes, and an Original Preface, Etc

Source: The Works of the Late Reverend John Wesley, A.M.: From the Latest London Edition with the Last Corrections of the Author, Comprehending Also Numerous Translations, Notes, and an Original Preface, Etc

“There's a link between bigotry and bad spelling.”

Bigotry Links Spelling

Author:David Mitchell

“Something as important as marriage equality, which is now a constitutional right [in the USA], is something that cannot be denied. It's also very un-Christian, if you think about the way Christ was and Christ's teachings. This is not loving. This is anger. This is hatred. This is bigotry. And it's wrong.”

Ifs Thinking Way Important Christian Christ Teaching Hatred Usa Bigotry Denied Marriage Equality

Author:Margaret Cho