Quotes About Religious Bigotry

#1. Religious bigotry is a dull fire - hot enough to roast an ox, but with no lambent, luminous flame shooting up from it.

Sara Coleridge

#2. If your Bible tells you that gay people ought not be married in your church, don't tell them they can't be married at city hall. Marriage is a civil rite as well a civil right, and we can't let religious bigotry close the door to justice to anyone.

Julian Bond

#3. I have a deep-seated bias against hate and intolerance. I have a bias against racial and religious bigotry. I have a bias that leads me to believe in the essential goodness of my fellow man, which leads me to believe that no problem of human relations is ever insoluble.

Ralph Bunche

#4. I don't want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the political right. The hard right has no interest in religion except to manipulate it.

Billy Graham

#5. Jerusalem is ... the fabled city which for the Western mind is as much dream as stone ... a compressed symbol of our most sublime aspirations along with our most disgusting, hatefully brainless excursions into religious bigotry and fratricide.

Arthur Miller

#6. As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers.

Ezra Cornell

#7. I believe in an India of pluralism and diversity, not of religious bigotry and caste politics. I believe in an India that is secure in itself and confident of its place in the world, an India that is a proud example of tolerance, freedom and hope for the downtrodden.

Shashi Tharoor

#8. I would not be standing here today if my skin were white or my religion were Presbyterian. I am here today only because my skin is yellow and my religion is Unification Church. The ugliest things in this beautiful country of America are religious bigotry and racism.

Sun Myung Moon

#9. People who prefer to believe the worst of others will breed war and religious persecutions while the world lasts.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#10. I'm on the board of a national group called Faith in America. It's designed to fight religious-based bigotry.

James McGreevey

#11. There is a bigotry rampant in America, against evangelicals. It is the last respectable bigotry.

Michael Novak

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

Daniel Lapin

#13. The present grows within the boundaries of the past.

Simon Van Booy

#14. 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.

H.L. Mencken

#15. I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

Jean Rostand

#16. 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.

Jay Sekulow

#17. Difference in opinions has cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether the juice of a certain berry be blood or wine.

Jonathan Swift

#18. One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship.

Milton Friedman

#19. What does religious freedom mean if we would use it as a cover for hate and privilege?

DaShanne Stokes

#20. People talk about history and things like slavery, genocide, and religious persecution as horrors that happened in the past because we were ignorant. But nothing's changed. We still hate what we don't understand.

J. Matthew Nespoli

#21. saw religion in Odessa used not to reinforce religious beliefs at all but as an excuse for people to come together and be made comfortable with their own social beliefs in racial and gender bigotry.

H. G. Bissinger

#22. If a policeman must know the Constitution, then why not a planner?

William J. Brennan

#23. There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins.

Isaac Hayes

#24. I've fought for religious freedom and I can tell you that anti-gay 'religious freedom' bills aren't it.

DaShanne Stokes

#25. Not anymore. To bring an outsider in could threaten the safety of Ephani. What if I were on a date and she needed me? (Celena)
What if a meteorite fell through the house right now and flattened us both? (Rafel)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#26. 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.

William Bennett

#27. It is nonsense for the Government to allow any loopholes for religious homophobia. Bigotry is bigotry whether it's dressed up in the language of faith or not.

Giles Fraser

#28. 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.

D. James Kennedy

#29. Ah well, I suppose that's the problem with trying to make others follow your own beliefs: what starts out as spiritual ardor too often becomes arrogance and bigotry.

Persia Woolley

#30. Antireligious bigotry is not confined to the classroom.

Ralph E. Reed Jr.

#31. My business is hurting people.

Sugar Ray Robinson

#32. What I really wish is that religious leaders could truly understand what the Bible is and stop trying to use it for hatred. I wish they could just stop hiding behind the Bible and live up to the fact that what they really stand for when they are bashing gays is small-minded bigotry.

Judith E. Snow

#33. Today's zealots are mostly those pretending to be anti-religious.

Criss Jami

#34. ... Science... denude(s) all religious beliefs... denigrating them as irrational forms of superstition or myth regardless of their intrinsic rationality or value.

Nicholas Gane

#35. The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into young brains by schools on the religious right, what we're doing is training kids to be cogs in the wheels of commerce.

Tom Robbins