Bigotry
Overview

A bigot is a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices, especially one exhibiting intolerance, and animosity toward those of differing beliefs. The predominant usage in modern English refers to persons hostile to those of differing sex, race, ethnicity, religion or spirituality, nationality, language, inter-regional prejudice
Prejudice
Prejudice is making a judgment or assumption about someone or something before having enough knowledge to be able to do so with guaranteed accuracy, or "judging a book by its cover"...

, gender and sexual orientation, age, homelessness, various medical disorders particularly behavioral disorders and addictive disorders.
Quotations

All seems Infected that th' Infected spy,As all looks yellow to the Jaundic'd Eye.

Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism (1711), Part II, line 358.

A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes there is no virtue but on his own side.

Joseph Addison, The Spectator 243, (1711-12-08).

All men feel something of an honorable bigotry for the objects which have long continued to please them.

William Wordsworth, Preface to the Lyrical Ballads|Preface to the Lyrical Ballads, Second Edition (1800).

Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges.

Thomas Jefferson, letter to Thomas Cooper (1810).

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education & free discussion are the antidotes of both.

Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams (August 1, 1816).

Show me the man who would go to heaven alone if he could, and in that man I will show you one who will never be admitted into heaven.

Owen Feltham, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers: A Cyclopædia of Quotations (1895) p. 535.

A man may die by a fever as well as by consumption, and religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, June 20, 1831; reported in the Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1909), p. 386.

 
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