Sidney Poitier Quotes

I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida.

Racism and hatred are synonymous.

The world is still very bigoted.

A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.

Intolerance has been the curse of our country.

I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.

That's a good thing; that's a damn good thing. We can use that to keep the niggers in their place.

Get those goddamned niggers! And get those goddamned white niggers.

… a stain on United States values and history.

Even here in Boston, we are informed, pride and prejudice have got to such a pitch, that in the very houses erected to the Lord they have built little places for the reception of colored people, where they must sit during meeting, or keep away from the house of God. Hypocrisy could hardly go further than that of preachers who could not see the evils at their door but could send out missionaries to convert the heathen, notwithstanding.

It's a shame, racism still exists.

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

Racial events in our game, which we are trying as hard as we can to eradicate, are always going to happen. You hope that it is something that doesn't escalate. Sometimes when times are harder they become more prevalent.

Racism isn't just in America... Alienation is felt worldwide in different capacities.

To assert that antisemitism is unlike other racisms is not to claim a privilege for it. Hating a Jew is no worse than hating anyone else.

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

There's a lot of hate in the world.

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.

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.

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

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.

I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida. It was so blatant... I had never been so described as Florida described me.

Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations.

I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced.

In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest.