Peter Ackroyd Quotes

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

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.'

I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans.

I don't think I'm alarmist. I'm more disappointed by the euphemisms in some instances than outright bigotry. Now, to me, you walk around with a Klan hat on or you've got a swastika on you arm, you just look like a dope, you know what I mean?

Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.

You know, bigotry isn't relevant to just the South. It never was. But I'm very grateful that I don't know what it's like from experience.

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

You tend to be afraid when someone seems foreign to you. But if you aren't careful, that can lead to bigotry.

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

Australia turns out to be a sensational place, albeit one of the most comfortably racist places I've ever been in. They've really settled into their intolerance like an old resentful slipper.

We must fight intolerance, racism and the far-Right.

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

A child from the age of 2 or 3 absorbs what is in the environment and what generates hatred for anyone perceived to be different.

Do not give voice to bigotry.

Intolerance has been the curse of our country.

That's what is always fascinating about racism - how it is allowed, if not encouraged, to flourish freely in public spaces, the way racism and bigotry are so often unquestioned.

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

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

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.

There is something uncannily adaptive about anti-Semitism: the way it can hide, unsuspected, in the most progressive minds.

I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.

Where anti-Semitism persists, the well being of all our people is at risk.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

In the 21st Century there is no place for Xenephobia, Anti-Semitism of any other form of discrimination.

Islamaphobia is the only form of racism which is socially acceptable.