Alek Wek Quotes

Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

I hate to tell you, but racism is alive and well in a lot of parts of the world.

I've experienced racism and homophobia my whole life, so I've trained myself to just deal with it calmly, to not cause a scene, and to find a way to calm the situation down.

Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?

Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.

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

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.

Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.

The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.

Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

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

If anyone wants to abuse other people for whatever colour, race or creed they are, then it's just stupidness, isn't it?

The singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply.

Anybody who is racist, I just I think they are an idiot.

Yes, there is racism. There is discrimination. Mr. Trump may have the most powerful job in the world, but that does not make him a respectful person.

We may be more sophisticated in how we hide it, but there are still so many phobias in this world, whether it's Islamophobia, xenophobia or homophobia. I've been trying to do things that expose and help teach and draw attention to all of the 'isms' and how we do or don't deal with them in our world.

Anti-Semitism has never gone away; it will always be there because it's a very convenient prejudice. The gene of it, the original DNA, is buried deep within our history. And even within some Jews as well.

Everyone knows their wrong from right, so when people are being racist, they know they're being ignorant.

Racists are deficient as human beings.

I hate a bully, and I hate racists.