Florynce Kennedy Quotes

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

That's a good thing; that's a damn good thing. We can use that to keep the niggers in their place.

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.

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.

Racism is a disease which devalues the victim and corrupts the perpetrator.

An evil remains an evil whether practiced by white against black or black against white.

Hatred, racism, and extremism have no place in this country.

While our country has made great strides, the Jewish community is still the target of anti-Semitism, and we must continue to stand against all forms of hate, violence, and bigotry.

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

In the real world, there's probably nothing more horrifying than racism. Living racism is a horrifying experience. And then, having to normalize it and internalize it.

Negrophobes exist. It is not hatred of the Negro, however, that motivates them; they lack the courage for that, or they have lost it. Hate is not inborn; it has to be constantly cultivated, to be brought into being, in conflict with more or less recognized guilt complexes. Hate demands existence and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behavior; in a sense, he has to become hate. That is why Americans have substituted discrimination for lynching. Each to his own side of the street.

Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?

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.

I think that, as is the case offline, we should not be tolerant of hate speech, racist comments, or groups that promote hatred or intolerance in any shape or form.

I still find that a kind of stricture of the heart happens when I see any form of bigoted or racist behaviour. I get an actual pain in my heart.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.

The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.

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

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.

I'm not a racist, and I'm not a murderer.

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.

Someone who hates one group will end up hating everyone - and, ultimately, hating himself or herself.

In any society, fanatics who hate don't hate only me - they hate you, too. They hate everybody.