Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

Sexism is real in this country.

The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

There was a while when I was feeling like, ‚Damn, if I’d just been born black, I would not have to go through all this‘.

All I can say is I am sensitive to discrimination on any basis because I have experienced that upset.

The U.S. military was segregated ‚til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated.

Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no. That’s not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim American kid believing that he or she could be president?

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

To like an individual because he’s black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn’t white.

America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus‘ famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow.

I’ve never doubted that apartheid – because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil – was going to bite the dust eventually.

I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

I’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.

AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.

He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.

I had practiced with the team, and the first scheduled game was with the University of Missouri. They made it quite clear to the Army that they would not play a team with a black player on it. Instead of telling me the truth, the Army gave me leave to go home.

If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.

You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it’s open season on anybody who stutters.

I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

I am not going to be a mouthpiece for language that I detest.

If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many ‚bads‘ – bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even ‚bad‘ white males. Only, when you write about ‚bad‘ white males, they don’t complain about it. And need I say that there are ‚good‘ blacks, ‚good‘ homosexuals and ‚good‘ women?

A riot is the language of the unheard.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

The white man is destroying the world.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

I think what you’re seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they’ve got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.

After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.

I’ve never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn’t feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you’ve got to work as hard as them.

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

In the 1940s, traveling for an African was a complicated process. All Africans over the age of sixteen were compelled to carry ‚Native passes‘ issued by the Native Affairs Department and were required to show that pass to any white policeman, civil servant, or employer. Failure to do so could mean arrest, trial, a jail sentence or fine.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

No intelligent black man or black woman in his or her right black mind wants white boys and white girls coming to their homes to marry their black sons and daughters.

Racism and sexism, misogyny and homophobia, they’re so visible. They’re out in the open. When they’re visible, it’s a lot easier to deal with them.

A black person grows up in this country – and in many places – knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

Racism is real in this country.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

I’m not for gay marriage, but I’m not for discriminating against people.

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.

The realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.

No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.

Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.

Stop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong.

Anti-Semitism is real in this country.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.