Kanye West Quotes

People have evolved into something selfish, greedy and intolerant. People are unaccepting, because of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation... I've seen it in punk clubs, and I've seen it in the world.

Race, Religion, Ethnic Pride, Nationalism does nothing but teach you how to hate people you have never met

As a child growing up in San Francisco in the 1950s, I sometimes met insults when I ventured outside of Chinatown or my neighborhood. I have even been spat on and threatened with a knife. I could have let my anger fester until it became hate. However, I realized they were isolated incidents, and I simply got on with my life.

People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.

You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.

America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.

Religious-based and ethnic-based schools act as points of division in society, often breeding prejudice and fear …

National pride may be a valuable possession, but when it becomes consciousness of racial superiority it ceases to be an Imperial virtue.

The racial antipathy of the Occidental for the Oriental, the fierce religious hatred of the Christian for the Mohammedan, are motives actuating the Balkan peoples to a degree inconceivable in America.

I do think that the worst thing that a parent can do is to teach children to hate—prejudice.

I think there's always going to be some kind of bigotry or some kind of racism. There has to be, because people can't feel that they have any hero qualities unless there's someone beneath them.

Nothing in the world causes more problems than concepts of ethnic virtue. It's irrelevant.

Whether it is tribalism, racism, xenophobia, or anti-Muslim backlash we're talking about, we spend so much time and energy fighting ways to divide ourselves from others.

When people today say 'racism,' they mean it's a nationalism they don't like. Racialism used to be a good thing, a looking-out for what was best for one group... Israel comes out of that 19th-century idea of nationalism. Many Arab states also have preferences. It's fundamentally unfair to decide that one is racism and the others aren't.

I'm very hesitant to call somebody a racist, a sexist.

Racism isn't just in America... Alienation is felt worldwide in different capacities.

It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives.

Intolerance has been the curse of our country.

I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.

The Jews are a race and not a religion. My goal was not to persecute the Jews but to enlighten Gentiles to put them on guard.

In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest.

It's not anthrax or terrorism or AIDS that is the worst ill in our world: The most horrible disease in the world is hate.

Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.

Racism and discrimination of any kind have no place in football.

I am, as a European, absolutely shocked by European people. I am also shocked by European nationalist people. They have allowed themselves to be so emasculated so silently.