Roger Ross Williams Quotes

People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.

If you love someone, you love someone. It doesn't matter; age, colour, c'mon!

I'm a fierce advocate for diversity. Always have been, always will be.

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.

I've always been raised to love everyone, to accept everyone for their differences, and to just be open. But at a young, a very young age, I realized what racism was all about.

Excellence is the best weapon against prejudice.

I hope I stand for antibigotry, anti-Semitism, antiracism. This is what drives me.

There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance

I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?

I've told you before. You shouldn't judge people based on appearances and your preconceptions.

I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.

Discrimination is not liberal. Arguing against discrimination is not intolerance.

I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on the differences?

I am not prejudiced in any way.

I had an idea for a story about a young woman who was living with people who were different, not just superficially different - such as hair colour, or eye colour, or skin colour - but different in some significant way.

All I know for sure is that issues like race, like class, are always best approached with compassion and open-mindedness.

Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.

As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.

I'm not prejudiced in any way that I can think of. That's just not the guy I am.

The best way to kill anything un-American is to drag it out into the open; because anything un-American cannot live in the sunlight.

Somebody had to shock the world and let people know how great we could be if we only put our biases aside.

I am an enemy of racism

It is notable how little empathy is cultivated or valued in our society. I put this down to our traditional racism and obsessive sectarianism. Even so, one would think that we would be encouraged to project ourselves into the character of someone of a different race or class, if only to be able to control him. But no effort is made.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias; the spirit of liberty remembers that not even a sparrow falls to earth unheeded; the spirit of liberty is the spirit of Him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned, but has never quite forgotten; that there may be a kingdom where the least shall be heard and considered side by side with the greatest.

The dream of diversity is like the dream of equality. Both are based on ideals we celebrate even as we undermine them daily.