Juan Williams

Even after they fired me, called me a bigot and publicly advised me to only share my thoughts with a psychiatrist, I did not call for defunding NPR. I am a journalist, and NPR is an important platform for journalism.

American Journalist

Julie Plec

If the day-to-day culture is saying it's OK to not be inclusive or tolerant, that it's OK to be bigoted, then it's your responsibility to double down and make it OK in storytelling to be inclusive and tolerant.

American Producer

Walt Whitman

Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

American Poet

Tana French

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.

Irish Novelist

William Cowper

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

English Poet

Judith Tarr

The more facts one introduces, the more truth one shows, the more determined the bigot is to cling to his belief.

American Author

Gore Vidal

Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.

American Novelist

Don King

There's nothing I love more in life than turning around a bigot.

American Celebrity

Josh Billings

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

American Comedian

Katherine Heigl

American Actress

Used to express disapproval and intolerance toward someone's opinions or beliefs.

Negative Connotation

'Bigot' often implies that someone believes their views are superior to others.

Claiming Superiority

A bigot is usually unwilling to consider changing their prejudiced views or behaviors.

Unwilling to Change

 How are any of us persuaded? Am I going to persuade you by saying, "Well, you're kind of a bigot, you're supporting bigotry, you're supporting sexism. You're a primitive, fascistic rise from some authoritarian past"? That's probably not going to be too persuasive to you. And so the way any of us are persuaded is

Political common ground...

 and millions of offspring. Number four, a kinder world. Now, I know that there are family feuds. I have three sons, so I see how they fight. But I think that there's also a human bias to treat your family a little better than strangers. I think this tree is going to be bad news for bigots,

The world's largest...

 where she spoke to bigoted audiences as the only Black woman in the crowd. Truth was confident God would protect her, but some crowds responded to her bravery with violence. During one of her sermons, a mob of white men threatened to set fire to the tent where she was speaking.

The electrifying...

 was more than enough ammunition. So for the most part, I spent my time at home reading books and watching TV or playing video games. For those reasons, my social skills were lacking, to say the least, and growing up in a bigoted household, I wasn't prepared for the real world.

I am the son of a...

 I'll protect you even more. The bigots? I'll protect even them." So we have this perverse incentive where union leadership ends up not really representing the values even of the rest of the union members. But they have massive, outsized negotiating power. So yes, engaging with

The path to ending...

 and there's competition, maybe the free market will solve this problem. It won't. There's a lot of money to be made in unfairness. Also, we're not economic rational agents. We all are biased. We're all racist and bigoted in ways that we wish we weren't,

The era of blind faith...

 Dumb skepticism. So we've ended up in this bizarre dynamic online, where some people see bigoted propaganda as being edgy or being dangerous and cool, and people see basic truth and human decency as pearl-clutching or virtue-signaling or just boring.

Inside the bizarre world...

 believe in complexity but not in a bigot as you have been told I'm Bulgarian and according to the surveys we among the most pessimistic people in the world The Economist magazine recently wrote an article covering one of the recent

Can democracy exist...

 might actually help save them. So beware of your inner bigot, and make friends from your enemies. Thank you.

The press trampled on my...

 love is in the air these birds are part of our bigoted group which means we can