Ana Navarro Quotes

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

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

Or a White Englishman would rather smash a White Frenchman than a Jew! Crazy!

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

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

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.

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

… vulgar motive of national antipathy ...

Anybody who is racist, I just I think they are an idiot.

No single race has a monopoly on racism.

Profiling any segment of society and viewing them as a threat is a sign of intolerance.

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 do not want to have anything to do with anybody who is racist or bigoted or anti-Semitic.

I was racially discriminated against for years as a child in Leeds because I was an Italian.

There is a difference between being offended and being prejudiced and even being bigoted against. There's a difference between that and racism.

Where you are born, your parent's beliefs, or your ethnic background should not make you a target.

No nation is immune to anti-Semitism and xenophobia.

This business of demonizing or pre-defining people by the way they look, the religion that they practice, or where they came from is not only un-American but it's going to hurt America.

Xenophobia doesn't benefit anybody unless you're playing high-stakes Scrabble.

There is not anti-semitism as an ideology. The civilized world must think that anti-semitism is stupid.

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.

No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.

Well, I try to not view things through a prism of anti-Semitism, because often, people will use that as a sort of knee-jerk reaction to any criticism of Jews.

In all its myriad manifestations, the language of anti-Semitism through the ages is a dictionary of non-sequiturs and antonyms, a thesaurus of illogic and inconsistency.

Racism springs from ignorance.