Bristol Palin Quotes

Our leaders must hold themselves to a higher standard and ensure their words and actions do not promote hate or hurtful anti-Semitic stereotypes.

It's not like I hate gay people.

Gays, lesbians, straights, feminists, fascist pigs, communists, Hare Krishnas - none of them bother me. I don't care what banner they raise. But what I can't stand are hollow people. When I'm with them I just can't bare it, and wind up saying things I shouldn't.

Lots of people hate gay people. You can tell who they are because they start sentences with, “It's not like I hate gay people.”

It is, therefore, essential that we guard our own thinking and not be among those who cry out against prejudices applicable to themselves, while busy spawning intolerances for others.

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

Having a big gay following, I get hate mail and threats. Some people are blind or ignorant, and you can't be that prejudiced and hateful and go through this world and still be happy.

Why can't I be friends with somebody who's gay? Why not? You can miss out on a lot by being so small-minded and stereotypical about people. It's stupid.

To understand everything is to hate nothing.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

There's nothing I love more in life than turning around a bigot.

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

I've seen racism in my audiences. For example, I've seen people laugh at every other group, but then clam up when it comes to their community. You can't laugh at everyone else and then not laugh at yourself. You shouldn't be at my show if you can't laugh at yourself.

I am certainly not racist; I even like the British.

I'm not homophobic, I'm not a bigot, I'm not pandering to hatred.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

When I read a script, if I feel it's written with the idea of just bashing other people, then I shy away from it. Sometimes it's some guy coming out with his own hatred, and I don't need to be a part of it.

In the 21st Century there is no place for Xenephobia, Anti-Semitism of any other form of discrimination.

I don't like bigotry and intolerance, but they do exist and I don't think you're going to get them out by passing laws.

Demonizing the other does not help our cause and does bad things to us.

It is notable how little empathy is cultivated or valued in our society. I put this down to our traditional racism and obsessive sectarianism. Even so, one would think that we would be encouraged to project ourselves into the character of someone of a different race or class, if only to be able to control him. But no effort is made.

Racism has a very quick expiration date when exposed to actual contact with people.

We've got to start making people uncomfortable in themselves and not being comfortable being racist or homophobic or any of that. We've got to cut that out from the inside.

I think for me, as a gay person, I can convince a lot more people to be for gay marriage by not screaming at them and berating them and embarrassing them and belittling them, but by showing them that we're all exactly the same.