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I'm not any kind of a bigot, I'm not.

A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.

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

Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain.

A decent man who doesn't consider himself a bigot can indeed be trained to behave like a bigot if he welcomes feedback exclusively from those who consider bigotry no big deal or, indeed, an attribute to be admired.

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

If bigots oppose gay marriage so vehemently, it must be because marriage is a defining institution for them; gays will never be fully accepted until they can marry and adopt, like anyone else.

Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of a narrow mind, of an uncultivated intelligence. Bigotry is always ignorant, and the wise boy, who will become the wise man, tries to understand and to see the truth in ideas with which he does not agree.

Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.