Barry O'Farrell Quotes

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

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

When you discriminate against anyone, you discriminate against everyone. It's a display of terrible intolerance.

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

We must stand together united in solidarity against the targeting, demonization, and vilification of any group of people.

No nation is immune to anti-Semitism and xenophobia.

I don't know how racists live with their racism. We need to take the road of love. I don't think folks are born that way; it's learned and taught out of fear.

If we stand idly by while states legalize bigotry, we are responsible for allowing it to happen.

Sometimes, unfortunately, hatred is more powerful than progress.

As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

What does homophobia look like when it's stripped bare of fancy costumes like family values and tradition? It looks like that group of strange, angry people who protest at the funerals of U.S. soldiers who've died fighting for our country.

Intolerance has been the curse of our country.

The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.

Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.

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

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

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

If anyone wants to abuse other people for whatever colour, race or creed they are, then it's just stupidness, isn't it?

We consider anti-Semitism as a crime against humanity. At the same time we must consider Islamaphobia as a crime against humanity.

Color prejudice and religion are akin in one respect. Some folks have it and some don't, and the kernel that is responsible for it is present in us all.

There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach — it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.

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

I hate prejudice of any kind, whether it be color or sexual preference.