Steve Clevenger Quotes

As an African-American, I know all too well the negative thoughts and feelings hatred and bigotry cause.

There's a little racism out here, always was, and always will be.

Racism is felt the most definitely in grassroots football.

There are many different types of racism from people of different colours and nationalities. There is no vaccine to fight this and no antibiotics to take. It's a dangerous and infectious virus which is strengthened by indifference and inaction.

Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.

I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida.

I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.

Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.

Sometimes the British press is maybe a little bit racist.

There's a lot of racism still alive and still active.

You know, bigotry isn't relevant to just the South. It never was. But I'm very grateful that I don't know what it's like from experience.

Growing up in Michigan, I can't think of anything so explicitly communicated to me in my whole education experience as the vileness of in-your-face racism.

Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.

I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white.

Australia turns out to be a sensational place, albeit one of the most comfortably racist places I've ever been in. They've really settled into their intolerance like an old resentful slipper.

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist.

That's what is always fascinating about racism - how it is allowed, if not encouraged, to flourish freely in public spaces, the way racism and bigotry are so often unquestioned.

Racism springs from ignorance.

In England, I've never really had a problem with racism.

This is a racist country.

We know what racist people look like. They don't deny it. They just don't!

I never apologize for the truth. And the truth here is that racists come in many different colors.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.