Keira Knightley Quotes

The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we find them, allows for all the other great evils: racism, sexism, homophobia, violence against gay people and against women.

I would like to get rid of the homophobes, sexists, and racists in our audience. I know they're out there and it really bothers me.

We call for the end of bigotry as we know it. The end of racism as we know it. The end of child abuse in the family as we know it. The end of sexism as we know it. The end of homophobia as we know it. We stand for freedom as we have yet to know it. And we will not be denied.

It's okay in this country to be sexist. It's certainly not okay to be racist.

There's the continuing challenges of racism, of sexism, of discrimination against the LGBT community, of the way that we treat people as opposed to how we want to be treated.

I do think homophobia in the '80s was more rampant and socially acceptable.

Homophobia is very, very difficult to root out, to extricate. That's why we have to bear witness. That's why we have to be so public about it, and that's why we can't just play footsie with it.

It's outrageous to me when I see people hate on someone because of their sexuality. I hate the intolerance. I hate the judgment. I hate it so much.

In America, we have struggled too much, too long as a country trying to overcome racism and sexism and homophobia. We cannot go back to a more discriminatory society.

We live in a really sexist culture, that's got to be addressed. And a really homophobic one. And all those things need to be addressed and looked at.

Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.

Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.

It's ludicrous that my friends in California aren't able to legally get married. It's a civil rights issue. In 20 years we're going to look back at tapes of these antigay people saying ridiculous things on the news and it's going to sound as antiquated as the newsreels of horrible racists from the '50s.

Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.

No one should be discriminated against because of their sexual orientation.

I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias.

Because homophobia is still largely driven by the church, it's legitimised. It's also tied to sexism, because those two are never far apart.

Women are born, living their lives, and dying without the justice which they have been waiting for since the time of the caveman.

Every type of discrimination whether social or cultural, whether based on sex, race, social condition, language or religion, is to be overcome and eradicated as contrary to God's intent.

Students ask me why the same people oppose lesbians and birth control.

Racism and sexism, misogyny and homophobia, they're so visible. They're out in the open. When they're visible, it's a lot easier to deal with them.

It only takes two seconds of your life to say, 'I don't agree with white supremacy. I don't agree with homophobia.'

Nobody should be treated any type of way because of their color, their race, their gender, their socioeconomic status. We're all human.

I have no patience for homophobia.

Racism kills people. It kills people!