James Nesbitt Quotes

A lot of people of my Ulster Protestant background would have been very suspicious of the notion of a film about Bloody Sunday. Our fear would have been that it would be terribly anti-Britain and anti-soldiers: a piece of nationalist propaganda.

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination.

I think a lot of us who grew up in Northern Ireland weren't politicised enough, frankly.

History is not the Province of the Ladies ... Little Passions and Prejudices, want of information, false information, want of Experience, erroneous Judgment, and frequent partiality are among the Faults.

The Troubles are a pigmentation in our lives here, a constant irritation that detracts from real life. But life has to do with something else as well, and it's the other things which are the more permanent and real.

The George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin affair is one of the most important and clarifying moments in American history.

To exercise ignorance, racist prejudice, a love of power and total disregard for factual accuracy, one has to inhabit a world where everything can mean anything and nothing is certain.

Racists are deficient as human beings.

I find myself sick to death, tired of arguing about details with people who don't know basic facts.

For centuries in this country, black people were seen as three-fifths of a person. So when you hear the national anthem or you see an American flag as an African American person who has experienced the effects of that dehumanizing existence, it's not going to mean the same.

We've seen the worst that human beings are capable of. We've seen what happens when leaders abandon common decency in favor of rage and hate. Through the lens of history, the Holocaust happened yesterday, the civil rights movement was this morning, so we are not as out of the woods as we might have thought.

I haven't experienced a lot of prejudice in my life, but I'm not naive to what goes on in the world.

I'm not angry or anything at Sonnen, but I will say one thing - I hope nobody gets offended; I don't wanna sound disgusting, and I am certainly not fan of any anthropologic theories - but you can see on that guy's face that he is limited and stupid, and his IQ is not higher than the size of the shoes he's wearing.

Sin is the reason we are racist, prejudiced, and lie to cover for our own.

I've experienced racism and homophobia my whole life, so I've trained myself to just deal with it calmly, to not cause a scene, and to find a way to calm the situation down.

There's no religion in this country that is more misunderstood, mis-categorized, and misidentified than Islam.

Listen, you ignorant hillbillies, Lynyrd Skynyrd's dead. They're dead, they're dead, they're dead. The South's not risin' again. The slaves have been emancipated.

Separate but equal is a fraud.

Out of ignorance and fear comes judgment and division.

Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.

Human beings are not our enemy. Our enemy is not the other person. Our enemy is the violence, ignorance, and injustice in us and in the other person. When we are armed with compassion and understanding, we fight not against other people, but against the tendency to invade, to dominate, and to exploit.

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship

Prejudice is ignorance.