Charles M. Blow Quotes

Why hate someone for the color of their skin when there are much better reasons to hate them?

Racism does not have a good track record. It's been tried out for a long time and you'd think by now we'd want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.

It especially annoys me when racists are accused of 'discrimination.' The ability to discriminate is a precious faculty; by judging all members on one 'race' to be the same, the racist precisely shows himself incapable of discrimination.

It is one of the worse things you can say about somebody, they are racist.

Racism? But isn't it only a form of misanthropy?

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

Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.

The world is still very bigoted.

It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives.

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

Prejudice hasn't changed to this day, not in golf. Maybe in other sports.

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.

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

Islamaphobia is the only form of racism which is socially acceptable.

Beware of bad Asians

Injustice is either very blatant - you walk down the street and someone calls you a name; you don't get a job because of your gender or your skin color or your sexual preference - but injustice is also very subliminal.

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

Laws on hate speech and hate crimes do important work in a world that has been rooted in racism and bigotry since the inception of this country, which was not founded on ideals of justice.

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

Profiling any segment of society and viewing them as a threat is a sign of intolerance.

I would get so angry whenever I'd notice people looking at me weirdly. They'd even stop me on the street and ask questions about my skin color.

The people I make fun of most are white people. They're the dumbest ones. They really are.

This business of demonizing or pre-defining people by the way they look, the religion that they practice, or where they came from is not only un-American but it's going to hurt America.

Racism is wrong, racism is very dangerous.