Pamela Druckerman Quotes

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.

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

Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there.

I had a long time admiration for the Jewish people. Especially with their long time of courage, taking so much abuse for so long. I was only seven years old, but I could easily see the ungodly treatment that the white folks were handing the poor Jewish family whom I worked for.

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

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.'

Discrimination is a disease.

The world is still very bigoted.

There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic.

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

Intolerance has been the curse of our country.

Too many people hate the people that AIDS most affects: gay people and people of color. I do not mean dislike, or feel uncomfortable with. I mean hate. Downright hate. Down and dirty hate.

It's not anthrax or terrorism or AIDS that is the worst ill in our world: The most horrible disease in the world is hate.

Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.

Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.

Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.

Injustice is either very blatant - you walk down the street and someone calls you a name; you don't get a job because of your gender or your skin color or your sexual preference - but injustice is also very subliminal.

Racism is endemic to the human condition, just as stupidity is. We will always have to be on guard against it. But now it is recognized as a scourge, as the crowning immorality of our age and our history.

Anti-Semitism or discrimination of any kind has no place in our society.

Discrimination must always be drawn out, like venom from the wound.

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

Although it was common in our culture to complain a lot - about friends, relatives, business partners, bad luck, and the general cluelessness of non-Jews - we were not permitted to complain that anti-Semitism and discrimination were standing in our way.

Anti-Semitism is a form of racism, and all forms of racism are horrible.

In martial arts, for every attack, there is a counter you can throw. Somebody traps you, you can throw a hook. But there is no counter for bias.