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If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise. — © Salman Rushdie

If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.

Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie

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Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie
Indian - Novelist
Born: June 19, 1947

Bigots see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them. It's probably how they got to be bigots in the first place.

Jim Butcher

Jim Butcher

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

Wayne Gerard Trotman

I know a good many people, I think, who are bigots, and who know they are bigots, and are sorry for it, but they dare not be anything else.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

There is, unfortunately, too large a number of people who are just outright bigots in America. They're nowhere near a majority. They're a small number. But there are people who are in the Alt-Right who are just straight up bigots.

Van Jones

Van Jones

Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.

Reza Aslan

Reza Aslan

It's, like, bigots want to embrace me, and I politely take their arms from around my neck. I don't share their views - never have.

Isaiah Washington

Isaiah Washington

Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.

Vanna Bonta

Vanna Bonta

Feminists are now amongst the most obnoxious bigots.

Dominic Raab

Dominic Raab

Nor bigots who but one way see, through blinkers of authority.

Matthew Green

Matthew Green

Anti-clericalism and non-belief, have their bigots just as orthodoxy does.

Julien Green

Julien Green

Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.

Gelett Burgess

Gelett Burgess

Unfortunately, in this country, when we have the opportunity to be bigots in private, we take it every time.

Rod Lurie

Rod Lurie

I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.

Ron Reagan

Ron Reagan

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

There's the basket of deplorables, who are bigots of various stripes, misogynists, anti-Muslim, racists, homophobes.

George Packer

George Packer

I've seen how the left has used it to accuse opponents of their version of reform of being bigots and racists.

Marco Rubio

Marco Rubio

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