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Bigoted Quotes

Words on confronting bigotry and bias.

One quote argues fictional characters should never be written as bigoted or wrong in their own eyes, since real people rarely see themselves that way. Read Against quotes for more.

Your character is always right. No real person thinks they're being stupid or misguided or bigoted or evil or just plain wrong - so your characters can't, either.

Quotes by Tana French

Read the writers whose work is still around and has survived the winds of fashion and the attacks of the ignorant and the bigoted - read everything you can get your hands on.

Quotes by Richard Bausch

Conflict, of course, comes about because of the misuse of power and the clash of ideals, not to mention the inflammatory activities of unscrupulous and bigoted leaders. But it also arises, tragically, from an inability to understand and from the...

Quotes by Prince Charles

Birds of a lawless, bigoted feather bully together.

Quotes by Michelle Malkin

Against Quotes

Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed in garb that identifies them first and foremost as Muslims. This is not a bigoted...

Quotes by Juan Williams

I still find that a kind of stricture of the heart happens when I see any form of bigoted or racist behaviour. I get an actual pain in my heart.

Quotes by Janet Suzman

When I'm governor, we're not going to be silent like Bruce Rauner. Illinois will be a firewall against Donald Trump's destructive and bigoted agenda.

Quotes by J. B. Pritzker

Had you met me when I was 18 I was very, very patriotic almost to the point of sounding a little bit bigoted or racist, but then I moved away, came to London, my eyes were opened and I saw...

Quotes by Ioan Gruffudd

The great irony was that the punks were more conservative and narrow-minded and musically bigoted that anyone else.

Quotes by Genesis P-Orridge

American Quotes

For women, we intend to do something in a noble and missionary spirit... We mean to appeal to their intellects... and we hereby announce ourselves as determined and bigoted feminists.

Quotes by Frank Crowninshield

Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be.

Quotes by Emma Goldman

I do not want to have anything to do with anybody who is racist or bigoted or anti-Semitic.

Quotes by Corey Stewart

An abusive cop does not equal a bigoted police department.

Quotes by Bret Stephens

I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it.

Quotes by Ann Coulter

Anybody Quotes

It's wrong, and it's racist, and it's bigoted to say that guns are quintessentially American.

Quotes by Alan Dershowitz

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these bigoted quotes discuss?
How prejudice shows up in fiction writing, in real professional consequences for controversial comments, and in birds-of-a-feather group behavior.
Is there a quote about writing fictional characters?
Yes - it argues characters should never see themselves as bigoted, since real people rarely believe that of themselves either.
Does a quote mention losing a job over comments?
One recounts losing a broadcasting job after remarks about religious profiling while flying, included here as a real, described event, not a stance we're taking.
Is there a quote about a personal reaction to racism?
Yes, one describes physical discomfort, like a pain in the heart, upon witnessing bigoted or racist behavior.
What's the overall tone here?
Reflective and critical of bigotry, without endorsing any specific political position. See Against quotes for related themes.

Another describes physical discomfort at witnessing racist or bigoted behavior in person. Explore American quotes or Anything quotes.