Laurence Yep Quotes

Prejudice and discrimination have always been a big part of my life. When I was 6, I got beat up and called dirty Jew boy because they thought I looked Jewish.

There's a lot of hate in the world.

It's not hard to look at our own world and draw parallels between 9/11, for example, and how Muslims are viewed or treated by North American culture since then. Just to see the way fear can breed hatred and intolerance for people who aren't the same as us - and that's certainly part of what's at the heart of 'Descender.'

Racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, anything Nazi and a boatload of other things have no place in my life.

We've never been anti-Semitic.

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 sometimes feel that racism is getting worse.

There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic.

Intolerance has been the curse of our country.

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

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.

I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face.

I remember people saying: 'You look funny, your hair is so black, you have a flat nose,' but I didn't think of it being racism, and I still don't. But there was a sense of difference, of being an outsider.

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.

I have no idea how one stops one group, one race, from hating another. The hatred between human groups has never been cured, except by time.

The Irish hate our order, our civilization, our enterprising industry, our pure religion. This wild, reckless, indolent, uncertain, and superstitious race have no sympathy with the English character …. Their history describes an unbroken circle of bigotry and blood.

The two things I feared as a boy most were rattlesnakes and white people.

Muslims are backward and evil and if it is racist to say so... then racist I must be.

Three Whom God Should Not Have Created: Persians, Jews, and Flies

… the imbecile and indolent Mexican race

Race prejudice has nothing to do with color. It has to do with being the stranger.

I hate to tell you, but racism is alive and well in a lot of parts of the world.

Anti-Semitism is not just a problem for Jews; it is a problem for all of our society.

I have always been a fierce fighter against anti-Semitism. I oppose it and always have.