Richard Dooling Quotes

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

Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It's just not a good way to think. It's non-thinking. It's stupid and destructive.

I think there's a fear of difference in American cinema.

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

I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.

We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.

If you stay here much longer, you'll all get slitty-eyed

Niggers, Alligators, Apes, Coons and Possums

The English are an embarrassing and an ugly race—a lumpen and louty, coarse, unsubtle, beady-eyed, beefy-bummed herd.

We are not born knowing how to hate; we are taught how to hate.

I don't think I'm a bigot or a racist. But I have a truck, a Blazer. I drink beer. There are some women I do hate.

The people who hate immigrants are people who have never met them!

The very nature of the Chinaman holds him back. If his fellow should fall, John thinks it quite proper that he stamp on the underdogs face.

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.

I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department.

Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.

There is more racial prejudice in India than anywhere else in the world.

Sometimes the British press is maybe a little bit racist.

Over the years, my marks on paper have landed me in all sorts of courts and controversies - I have been comprehensively labelled; anti-this and anti-that, anti-social, anti-football, anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-Semitic, anti-science, anti-republican, anti-American, anti-Australian - to recall just an armful of the antis.

Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.

My tenure at 'The Daily Show' started during the decade after September 11, and fear of Muslims was at an all-time high. Politicians and the media seemed to dial the fright, mistrust, and animosity up to a fever pitch to gain votes and ratings.

There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.

I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.

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.

Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.