Steve King Quotes

People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.

Over the years, my marks on paper have landed me in all sorts of courts and controversies - I have been comprehensively labelled; anti-this and anti-that, anti-social, anti-football, anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-Semitic, anti-science, anti-republican, anti-American, anti-Australian - to recall just an armful of the antis.

The world is still very bigoted.

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people - and to hate those other people.

I think generalizations of any sort are dangerous. I'll say, if that is the case - right now it's an American issue.

If you think about it, there's not a religious group, there's not a nationalistic group, there's not a tribe, there is no grouping of people to my knowledge, of any consequence, who have not, at one or another time, been the object of hatred, racism, or who has not had people against them just because they were them.

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.

Prejudice and discrimination based on our differences is an unfortunate fact of life.

Racism is a problem everywhere, especially in this country, but all over the world, and especially within queer space.

Othering people is something that humans have done for ever.

Profiling any segment of society and viewing them as a threat is a sign of intolerance.

Going into a room and saying, 'I'm a black lesbian' - it's a strike against you.

We have such a culture of discrimination and hatred, and one that has scapegoats and affects people so extremely. That's something that very easily crosses borders.

Trump's campaign is not a collection of ignorant statements. It is a candidacy of hate and fear that poses serious risks to people of color, women, people with disabilities, immigrants, and LGBTQ people.

Behind every racist joke is a scientific fact.

I'm not a stranger to the persecution that Muslims have faced over the years.

It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.

Dwarves are still the butt of jokes. It's one of the last bastions of acceptable prejudice.

Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.

Discrimination is alive and soaring.

Language that is designed to dehumanize has consequences.

Hate crimes impact not just individuals but entire communities. When a family is attacked because of the color of their skin, it's not just the family that feels violated, but every resident of that neighborhood.

I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the 'n' word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren't pretty or they weren't rich or they weren't clever.