Peter McWilliams Quotes

When you dehumanize a group, there's lasting consequences because they know that they're being dehumanized.

Costs are incurred whenever any group is treated as lesser or the other, whether they are women, racial, or religious minorities, or the LGBT.

The gay male is always going to be at the bottom.

As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.

The trouble with discrimination is not discrimination per se, but rather that the people who are discriminated against think of themselves as second-class.

This is an industry rife with racism, sexism and homophobia. It is so closely woven into the fabric of the business that we have become snowblind to the glaring injustices happening every day.

I don't think it's helpful to put them all in a box and say people are evil and freaks because they have gotten to the point where they have fallen out of the community of what it is to be a human being. That's worthy of investigation.

I always think that there's a weight of prejudice from the past that gay people perhaps carry around with them. Even if it doesn't exist so much around them, they still have a feeling of being excluded, and perceived prejudice is almost as unsettling as actual prejudice.

Homophobia hurts our league. Racism hurts it. Sexism hurts it.

Throughout college and law school, as well as in my career as a lawyer and police reform advocate, I've faced various toxic combinations of racism, sexism, and homophobia.

By definition, of course, we believe the person with a stigma is not quite human. On this assumption we exercise varieties of discrimination, through which we effectively, if often unthinkingly, reduce his life chances.

Untouchability is a hydra-headed monster.

What hurts is not being homosexual, but they tell it in your face as if you were a plague.

No privileged order ever did see the wrongs of its own victims.

Less racist now but it has been. I don't think it's been completely stamped out. There's a class element to it. And who's supposed to do what. You're very unlikely to get a gay grip.

She couldn't imagine why there was such a difference between those children and her. She couldn't imagine why she and all these other people with her had to be treated this way. Who decided this, and what for?

Untouchability is a many-headed monster and forms, some of them so subtle as not to be easily detected.

It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community.

However democratic and egalitarian we kid ourselves into thinking society might be, I think that sense of entitlement operates as basically and viciously as it always did.

Society is better off without certain people.

Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.

What causes terrorism is disrespect, a lack of justice, and poverty.

There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.