Mustafa Ali Quotes

I think people feel like other people are very different from them... And that people who are different from them are actually sort of unworthy of the same rights or empathy. I don't understand that.

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

The show doesn't drive home a lesson, but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.

Demonizing the other does not help our cause and does bad things to us.

I do think that the worst thing that a parent can do is to teach children to hate—prejudice.

Our leaders must hold themselves to a higher standard and ensure their words and actions do not promote hate or hurtful anti-Semitic stereotypes.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.

One thing I do know, you can't change hatred by showing those people that they're wrong about us.

I call on you not to hate, because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking.

There's nothing I love more in life than turning around a bigot.

Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.

You know, people aren't always the most open-minded.

You tend to be afraid when someone seems foreign to you. But if you aren't careful, that can lead to bigotry.

If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.

Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

For instance, one big issue in hip hop is the gay thing. It's 2013, and it's a shame that, to this day, that topic still gets people all excited. It's crazy. And it makes me upset that this topic even matters when it comes to hip hop, because it makes it seem like everybody in hip hop is small-minded or stupid - and that's not the case.

The idea that education will lead to a lessening of bigotry is just factually incorrect.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.

It is hate that binds people together. Love is personal.

Color prejudice and religion are akin in one respect. Some folks have it and some don't, and the kernel that is responsible for it is present in us all.

I hate prejudice of any kind, whether it be color or sexual preference.

Stereotyping of any race or culture is narrow-minded, and I can't wait to help break the shackles.