Malcolm X Quotes

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 cannot go back to a racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic type of society.

We have a lot more work to do in our common struggle against bigotry and discrimination. I say "common struggle" because I believe very strongly that all forms of bigotry and discrimination are equally wrong and should be opposed by right-thinking Americans everywhere. Freedom from discrimination based on sexual orientation is surely a fundamental human right in any great democracy, as much as freedom from racial, religious, gender, or ethnic discrimination.

I was raised with this idea that we're supposed to be tolerant of other people's opinions, but then what happens if other people's opinions are racist and hateful and wrong?

At the end of the day, if millions of people come together and say, we are not going to be a xenophobic society, we are not going to be throwing millions of Latinos out of this country, we are not going to be a racist society, we're not going to be a sexist society, we will prevail.

Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.

My beliefs are now one hundred percent against racism and segregation in any form and I also believe that we don't judge a person by the color of his skin but rather by his deeds.

I am an enemy of racism

My values - going back to my childhood - were always based on respect for all people and rejection of bigotry and racism.

I believe nobody should be discriminated against.

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

At the end of the day, if you're not against racism, you're racist.

Whether it's racism, homophobia, misogyny, transphobia, xenophobia, religious intolerance or other bias - we demand to live in a country where we can be safe to be who we are, believe what we want and love whomever we want.

Discrimination at any level sends a harmful message to youth, gay or straight alike, and that discrimination has no place in Scouting.

I am not interested in the support of anybody who stands for any form of prejudice as to anybody's race or religion. . . . I have no place in my philosophy for such beliefs.

I've always been raised to love everyone, to accept everyone for their differences, and to just be open. But at a young, a very young age, I realized what racism was all about.

"Not being virulently and overtly racist against black people" and "treating gay people like human beings" are necessary conditions of greatness.

We can't allow racism and xenophobia to gain traction.

I hope I stand for antibigotry, anti-Semitism, antiracism. This is what drives me.

I'm not a racist. That's what's so insane about this.

I believe that those who promote discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or any other grounds are gravely mistaken about the values that make our nation strong. I will continue to move my administration in the direction of compassion, acceptance, and understanding.

If you see bigotry, oppose it.

I have known Trent Lott for 20 years, ... I don't believe he's racist. But he must proactively send a message to his colleagues in the Senate and the American people that he is absolutely opposed to any segregation in any form and racism in any form and discrimination in any form.

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.

Marches alone won't bring integration when human respect is disintegratin'