Adam-Troy Castro Quotes

Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.

The worst moment in my life was when I was seven years old and I discovered that there was a thing such as racism. You don't know you're different until someone lets you know.

When I went through some racism through my early days and I went back and told Mum... she said, 'Don't worry about that, they're just ignorant.'

It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.

The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.

Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.

I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced.

When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

I have all my life fought against prejudice, having been subjected to it myself.

A society which emphasizes uniformity is one which creates intolerance and hate.

… cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.

I hate prejudice of any kind, whether it be color or sexual preference.

Most racist people are like sheep. They are people without backbones.

There was so much racism when I was a kid, but it was also ignorant.

I haven't experienced a lot of prejudice in my life, but I'm not naive to what goes on in the world.

In too many ways, political correctness has been a bully.

Racism exists, but it is far less rampant than ignorance, and ignorance can be cured through experience.

I don't know how racists live with their racism. We need to take the road of love. I don't think folks are born that way; it's learned and taught out of fear.

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance.

Prejudice is more violent the blinder it is.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.

It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.

Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.

Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.