Franchesca Ramsey Quotes

There is a cost to ignorance and the hate.

Both racism and homophobia come from a sense of the presumed and the unknown.

I did get in a few fights in school. Kids threw around anti-Semitic slurs, not knowing necessarily what they meant. It was probably just something they picked up somewhere, as kids do.

I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department.

Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.

Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.

My dad was such a bigot. He was a horrible, self-centred person. He was really racist and he'd talk about the Jews and blacks and Catholics even.

Well, he's not going to get any nicer. He's a genocidal racist maniac. He's one of these people who thinks the world was a great place when Voldemort ruled the world. He's particularly offended by mixed-blood Mudbloods, the product of wizards and humans. So I hope he goes into therapy.

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 worst moment in my life was when I was seven years old and I discovered that there was a thing such as racism. You don't know you're different until someone lets you know.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

You're absolutely right: Bob Grant is a racist, Bob Grant is a bigot, he's a despicable talk show host and I agree with that.

Racist people are few, in the minority. But you can do nothing to change them. You can talk, you can do what you want, but you can't do anything because they are just stupid people.

This is a racist country.

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds.

I'm not anti-Semitic. I'm anti-white.

I must confess that when I see anyone with an Obama bumper sticker I recognize them as a threat to the gene pool.

I don’t watch TV because every time I do all I ever see is that fucking nigger.

anti-woman, anti-immigrant, anti-gay, anti-education, anti-environment.

We are not born knowing how to hate; we are taught how to hate.

Trump enabled, allowed, peddled to, and promoted the worst in America - racism, division, discrimination, misogyny - during his campaign. I will never forget or forgive him for that.

Racism must be fought - there are no two ways about it.

This country is rich with awful things to say about everybody. There's a slur for you and a slur for me - more than one. And because we're terrified of dealing with them head on, we've made them just as easy to warp and defang.

Peddling to racism is just as bad as being a racist.

You know, just to be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. They're racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic - you name it.