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    bigotry


    1. And those remaining, very few, who through bigotry or sheer ignorance had despised the little family's presence in the village, now had to be very cautious indeed to at least never publicly hint at any lingering misgivings regarding the Livingsons they might still privately harbor


    2. They’d readily reciprocated, never once showing any trace of bigotry despite Nerissa’s continued status as a slave


    3. He was later a presidential candidate for the Know Nothing Party, whose bigotry focused on Irish Catholics


    4. One is its bigotry, its open hatred and stereotyping of all people from one region of the country


    5. The triggering device behind these uprisings has been, among other things, a growing perception of (native) French complacency, indifference and (perhaps) bigotry by a (weary) nation that has grown accustomed to its creature comforts; supported by emerging working classes who feel deprived of its social and political rights as well as uncertain of their own proper role in French society


    6. But longstanding bigotry taught in many Protestant churches forced many Irish underground


    7. Many chose to deal with bigotry by converting to Protestant faiths, calling themselves Scotch-Irish, and then hiding their Irish ancestry


    8. The fact is Fillmore became the public face of anti-Catholic bigotry


    9. We also know there have been cases of politicians pandering to bigotry even if they were not personally bigoted


    10. The final proof of his anti-Catholic bigotry is that after his defeat he blamed his loss on “foreign Catholics,” agreeing with the central premise of Know-Nothing belief, that the Catholic Church was conspiring to take over America

    11. As for the Irish Catholics so feared by the Know-Nothings, they discovered how to assimilate into American society: Take part in bigotry against others


    12. Where once Blacks and Irish had worked together, lived in the same neighborhoods, and even intermarried, Irish-American bigotry against Blacks became common as a way to distinguish themselves and try to avoid prejudice from whites


    13. Wilson's campaign of hysteria and bigotry had deadly consequences


    14. I had to scald him “accidentally” after class one day in Greene Lounge to let him know I was tired as hell of his bigotry and was capable of more physicality if he kept it up


    15. Mixed up in all the wetness were tears of frustration that fat Patrick and his ilk should still be alive, destroying gladness with their bigotry, dogma and hatred, while Max, beautiful Max, was nothing but a cupful of ashes


    16. ‘Lance has been drinking in their bigotry and attending some stupid Bible-class


    17. Hadn’t he suffered enough as a kid? Was his whole life to be a battle against bigotry and hatred? He was losing the urge to fight


    18. He took Robert’s hands, kissed each finger in turn, then whispered, ‘If I could protect you from the hydra of hatred and bigotry, I would


    19. freedom from bigotry of any sort


    20. (c) Uparati (cessation) -- explained as a cessation from bigotry or from belief in the necessity of any act or ceremony prescribed by a

    21. partner's bigotry was not a surprise to her


    22. I studied the political nature of LGBT bigotry and


    23. 7 Then turning to his apostles, Jesus said: "From olden times the prophets have perished in Jerusalem, and it is only befitting that the Son of Man should go up to the city of the Father's house to be offered up as the price of human bigotry and as the result of religious prejudice and spiritual blindness


    24. bigotry was shameless, the US partly accepted the story that


    25. He didn't pursue further accusations of bigotry, so I did not have to make good on my threat, which maybe would have stirred the pot in the minds of some


    26. This is the result of the intervention of “human beings”, who, due to their lack of consideration or prejudice, hate or bigotry, have forced good citizens to worry about their every move


    27. religious delusion) as it was also for their ancestors, led them into bigotry and hypocrisy


    28. knowledge, wisdom and understanding but to be ‘under the fig’ as it were, is bigotry,


    29. preference to narrow minded bigotry which is so often the case


    30. ancestors, led them into bigotry and hypocrisy

    31. and understanding but to be 'under the fig' as it were, is bigotry, hypocrisy, prejudice and


    32. for bigotry or prejudice


    33. ‘’Yes, they did, Vance, thanks to a presidential executive order and to the bigotry of too many Americans


    34. in search of a new life, only to find the frontier rife with bigotry


    35. when bigotry had prevailed in Carson City


    36. Injustice and bigotry has been allowed for too long in Alabama and in other similar places and I came to deal with it


    37. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution


    38. However, because of some men’s bigotry and unreasoning hatred, we are here today, grieving over our loss


    39. Such religious intolerance and bigotry would even cross the Atlantic Ocean and end up in North America, resulting among other things into the infamous Salem witch trials


    40. There was unfortunately still way too much intolerance and bigotry around for her to feel fully comfortable in her own country of adoption

    41. And, worst of all, it is an age of spurious liberality, when, under the high-sounding phrases of "No party spirit! no bigotry!" and the like, men live and die without having any distinct opinions at all


    42. Of the water and bigotry, greed and remorse


    43. over bigotry and intolerance


    44. But normally bigotry makes people imagine they are superior to the rest of the peoples put together


    45. ‘The communal jaundice colors our vision with the bigotry of our faith, to project hateful images of the people of other religions,’ said Raja Rao


    46. Thus, in terms of reach and approach, the straight but narrow paths of Judaism, the Christianity, not to speak of Islam, appear like by-lanes of bigotry compared to the Highway of Hindu Spirituality, exemplified by the dictum of vasudhaika kutumbam – the world is but one family


    47. Why is not Islam but Mohammedanism, shaped to serve the personal needs and the political ends of its prophet, and not the religion designed for the enlightenment or the emancipation of its followers? But, the Musalmans cannot see the reality as the bigotry of the community ensures that the Islamic blinkers are put on the young early on


    48. Thus if not for their Islamic bigotry, the Bangladeshis, as a people, would have appropriately responded to the gesture of the Indian goodwill, as any other peoples of the world


    49. Whatever, during the ‘unauthorized’ Mohammedan expansion down the Quranic journey, the Islamic straight, but narrow, path began to lead the umma onto the narrower by lanes of bigotry, or so it seems


    50. Wish in the coming years, India would be blessed with an Anwar Sadat to dare defy the bigotry of the Mullahs, and/or a Kemal Ataturk to cross swords with the Islamic fundamentalists to make a lasting difference to the Hindu - Muslim coexistence

























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    Synonyms for "bigotry"

    bigotry dogmatism narrow-mindedness intolerance fanaticism racism injustice

    "bigotry" definitions

    the intolerance and prejudice of a bigot