Ulrich Beck Quotes

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

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation.

You know what should be banned? Stuff that's whack. The world is controversial. The world is classist. The world is racist.

I really hate racism because I saw people denied possibilities.

We have tolerance, respect, and equality in our written laws but not in the hearts of some of our people.

Anytime you see somebody keeping a secret, that's symptomatic that something's wrong with the society around them. That means there's discrimination or worse.

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.

Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world.

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

Discrimination is a disease.

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.

I grew up in the Deep South, where sexism, racism, and homophobia were and still are alive and well. I have early, early memories of words and actions of this type being very painful.

Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

Too many people hate the people that AIDS most affects: gay people and people of color. I do not mean dislike, or feel uncomfortable with. I mean hate. Downright hate. Down and dirty hate.

In 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.

Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

They taught me different was wrong.

Any time I saw people treated unfairly because of race, creed, whatever - it struck a nerve.

One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.

If anyone wants to abuse other people for whatever colour, race or creed they are, then it's just stupidness, isn't it?

Racism is a disease which devalues the victim and corrupts the perpetrator.

… 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.

The arguments given by my predecessors in support of the ban on same sex marriage are the same arguments that were given to ban interracial marriage.