Kelsey Grammer Quotes

The opinion that Trump equals hate is not a fact. It is a view.

I remember once at the end of a BBC job interview the manager said to me: 'I didn't realise people like you were clever.' I don't think he was being intentionally nasty. At that time in the BBC he was surrounded by clones of himself, give or take some facial hair and glasses.

Instead of rating the man by his performances, we rate too frequently the performances by the man.

[They] should never have put me with that woman. ... She was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour.

Disparities in sentencing often resulted from unconscious biases of judges,

I think it is likely that within every department there are some officers who subtly, if not otherwise, are biased in the way they go about enforcing the law. I think that is just life. We know that to be true.

For the anti-Semite, the problems of the world can invariably be ascribed to the Jews; for the Communist, to the capitalists.

Racism comes in many different forms. Sometimes it's subtle, and sometimes it's overt. Sometimes it's violent, and sometimes it's harmless, but it's definitely here. It's something that I think we're all guilty of, and we just have to make sure that we deal with our own personal racism in the right way.

If interviewers are prejudiced against women or Hispanics, for example, a face-to-face interview will predictably result in discrimination. Reliance on tests, or on actual or past performance, can promote equality.

We all, white and black, carry various biases around with us.

Maybe at some level, even at an early age, without ever being aware of it, I was reacting to something. To people judging me based on how I looked instead of what I could do.

Some of the most destructive forms of racism - like being denied a home loan or being passed on for a job where you are the most qualified candidate - are hard to measure in real time.

Everyone - male and female - is biased. But no one wants to admit it, so our brains search for examples that disprove the accusation.

When you are different, that can lead to judges not marking you right because they think you look 'odd' - and that's in any competition.

People are making a lot more noise about representation and diversity. But I think modeling is one of the professions where people can be kind of racist.

No one is ever bias-free, but some people let their biases influence their actions more than others.

When a black man is stopped by a cop for no apparent reason, that is covert racism. When a black woman shops in a fancy store and is followed by security guards, that is covert racism. It is more subtle than 1960s racism, but it is still racism.

I think everybody's gone through some racist moment in their life.

We fight the stereotypes, but in fighting them, we show them. There are stereotypes for a reason.

Our babies know nothing about hate or racism. But soon they begin to learn - and only from us.

You have to be an anti-racist to not be racist. Because it's just a cultural tide that will pull you into it if you're not swimming against it.

I try to not assume things are sexism. I'm trying to be good natured about why things are happening.

Making sweeping over-generalizations is classically un-American.

I think implicit bias is a problem for everyone, not just police. I think, unfortunately, too many of us in America jump to conclusions about each other.

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.