Janis Joplin Quotes

Both racism and homophobia come from a sense of the presumed and the unknown.

I hope we can dismantle the idea that the entire south is sitting on our porches spitting tobacco and hating gay people.

Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It's just not a good way to think. It's non-thinking. It's stupid and destructive.

In London they don't like you if you're still alive.

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

Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.

Montreal is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, erudite, educated, glorious city today. But it wasn't quite that way when I was growing up there. There was a lot of anti-Semitism. And I had to deal with that in an area of the city that had very few Jews.

I think in our society we too often choose the people we associate with based on our own hasty judgments.

Muslims are like wild dogs. You can't deal with them, you can only kill them.

There is again a rising fever and anger towards those seen as different.

When you dehumanize a group, there's lasting consequences because they know that they're being dehumanized.

Othering people is something that humans have done for ever.

Ignorance breeds fear and hatred.

The very nature of the Chinaman holds him back. If his fellow should fall, John thinks it quite proper that he stamp on the underdogs face.

Fear and Bigotry are bred fom isolation and ignorance. -Shekinah

At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia.

I do notice that when I've been away and I come back to London. People look at you. People are ready to pick arguments.

I wasn't bullied or anything, but I was treated differently because I was an actor, and I had big dreams.

Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.

No one said anything to my face, but I constantly heard comments denigrating Jews.

It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.

Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.

I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint at the fact that we are not a favorite people I am accused of stirring up strife and setting barriers between the two sects.

Dwarves are still the butt of jokes. It's one of the last bastions of acceptable prejudice.