Tommy Dorfman Quotes

When I wrote a gay character, I spent six months asking questions I've never asked a gay friend, the questions you don't ask just because you don't have the right to do it.

I try to bring all that I am to my work and all that I experience. That includes how people react to the way I am - the prejudice and the celebrations.

People of conscience are compelled to oppose racism, sexism, and intolerance of people with different sexual identities and orientation wherever and whenever they see it.

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

If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.

We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.

I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.

No one is born hating others.

Of course, the majority of us would speak up in the face of outrageous bigotry, but do we speak up in a social situation when someone casually refers to something as 'gay'? If we don't, we are standing with the homophobes whom we are quietly fighting.

I have a friend who is around my age, a little younger, and she's gay and came out to her own community when she was younger but not to her family and to the community at large.

Ironically, when I've asked my straight friends to join me in hanging a rainbow flag, they answer, 'But someone might think we're gay,' not realizing that is exactly the point. To be mistaken for the oppressed is to momentarily become the oppressed.

I have never been racist.

People aren't born racist.

I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation.

No one should be discriminated against because of their sexual orientation.

I am not homophobic - in no way, shape or form.

I do not believe that the people of Ontario judge their leaders on the basis of race, sexual orientation, colour or religion. I don't believe they hold that prejudice in their hearts.

This country's policies should be heavily biased in favor of non-discrimination.

I found no better way of dealing with the race problem as to interact with all other people as if discrimination did not exist.

Experience tells us that people are not born with the innate ability nor the wish to see the Other as an equal individual in society. Pride in one’s separate identity can be so strong that it obscures the intrinsic value of other identities. Pluralism is a value that must be taught.

Don't let anyone keep you down for silly reasons such as who you are.

Racism has a very quick expiration date when exposed to actual contact with people.

I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they're men or women.

I've experienced Islamophobic stuff. But I don't care - you can say whatever you want to say about me, but I am who I am. I think that what I'm trying to fight for and what I'm performing for is bigger than any religion, race, creed, or class.

People want to know and understand each other across lines of race, class, gender, sexuality, ability.