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‘.
EminemIn the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics.
Stephen HawkingWhen I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don’t think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.
Jimmy CarterMany interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they’re being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I’m black. I tell them, ‚Don’t stop now. If I shot somebody you’d mention it.‘
Colin PowellI hate victims who respect their executioners.
Jean-Paul SartreOf all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.
VoltaireThere is no scriptural basis for segregation.
Billy GrahamWhen I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
Isaac AsimovThe biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
Mother TeresaWhen I ask OGs why there’s so much division in the streets, nobody never really knows. But you know one thing that everybody always mention? A woman.
Kendrick LamarReligious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.
Jean-Jacques RousseauAs long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.
Nelson MandelaEducation is indoctrination if you’re white – subjugation if you’re black.
James BaldwinThe ‚peace movement‘ exists only in the fantasies of the paranoid.
Noam ChomskyI don’t think there is a single social issue I haven’t spoken on.
Billy GrahamPrejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Maya AngelouIn the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
John SteinbeckI had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.
J. Robert OppenheimerViolence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.
Albert CamusRacism is real in this country.
Kamala HarrisIf people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don’t get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.
Barack ObamaSexism is real in this country.
Kamala HarrisSomething’s very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.
Robert KiyosakiI think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.
Billy GrahamSlavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
Abraham LincolnWe must make it clear that a platform of ‚I hate gay men and women‘ is not a way to become president of the United States.
Jimmy CarterIf you’re white and you’re wrong, then you’re wrong; if you’re black and you’re wrong, you’re wrong. People are people. Black, blue, pink, green – God make no rules about color; only society make rules where my people suffer, and that why we must have redemption and redemption now.
Bob MarleyIf you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.
King SolomonThe ‚Third World‘ is a term I don’t like very much because we’re all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.
Audrey HepburnEveryone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
Aldous HuxleyIn various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people – and to hate those other people.
Thomas SowellI’ve been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don’t have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.
Lady GagaIf you see a black family, it’s looting, but if it’s a white family they are looking for food.
Kanye WestFor 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.
Desmond TutuEven after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?
Narendra ModiI have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.
Desmond TutuHate crime is not new in the United States.
Kamala HarrisThe worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
AristotleThe most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
H. L. MenckenLet’s be clear about this, and let’s be clear: we should not be creating incentives to house people in prison. We should be creating incentives instead to shut the revolving door into prison.
Kamala HarrisI’m not for gay marriage, but I’m not for discriminating against people.
Joel OsteenIt’s a well-known fact that tall people are evil.
Kevin HartThere are thousands of boys being wasted daily to our country through being left to become characterless, and, therefore, useless wasters, a misery to themselves and an eyesore and a danger to the nation. They could be saved if only the right surroundings or environment were given to them at the receptive time of their lives.
Robert Baden-PowellI learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.
Christopher HitchensStop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.
Dolly PartonThe object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you’re opposed to it. But when you’re writing a novel, you don’t want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that.
Margaret AtwoodIt’s difficult to believe that people are still starving in this country because food isn’t available.
Ronald ReaganI think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerCriticism is prejudice made plausible.
H. L. MenckenAnger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
Mahatma GandhiAs a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.
John KennedyAmerica 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.
Ruth Bader GinsburgThe capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What’s happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It’s going to make the situation worse.
Vivienne WestwoodWe 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.
Thich Nhat HanhAll religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.
Narendra ModiWell, yeah, people are working in our country. You know what? They’re working two and three jobs, and in our America, people should not have to work more than one job to be able to put food on the table and have a roof over their head.
Kamala HarrisIt is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say ‚oral method‘ to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say ‚sign language‘ to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.
Alexander Graham BellI have spoken about inflation, unemployment, farmers‘ problems, security, etc. I keep talking about these issues. I seek answers from the Indian government.
Narendra ModiMen feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they’re men or women.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg