Definition of Bigotry

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Definition of Bigotry
	Bigotry The state of mind of a bigot; obstinate and unreasoning attachment of one's own belief and opinions, with narrow-minded intolerance of beliefs opposed to them. The practice or tenets of a bigot. Related Definitions: And, Attachment, Belief, Bigot, Intolerance, Mind, Narrow-Minded, Obstinate, Of, One, Opposed, Or, Own, Practice, State, The, Them, To, With

Bigotry Quotations

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

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
Rabindranath Tagore

Bigotry is the sacred disease.
Heraclitus

I'm surprised at the extent of the bigotry. But it really plays out when companies or schools take a side and prohibit the other platform at all. We Mac users should be good even when the other side is bad. We should do what we can to accept the other platforms.
Steve Wozniak

Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.
Coretta Scott King

I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.
Coretta Scott King

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.
Anna Quindlen

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
Charles Caleb Colton

The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.
Christopher Lasch

We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.
Rachel Griffiths

Bigotry Translations

bigotry in French is bigoterie
bigotry in German is Engstirnigkeit
bigotry in Spanish is intolerancia

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