Joe R. Lansdale Quotes

Discrimination is a disease.

Too many people hate the people that AIDS most affects: gay people and people of color. I do not mean dislike, or feel uncomfortable with. I mean hate. Downright hate. Down and dirty hate.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

If anyone wants to abuse other people for whatever colour, race or creed they are, then it's just stupidness, isn't it?

Racism is a disease which devalues the victim and corrupts the perpetrator.

Discrimination must always be drawn out, like venom from the wound.

I do not want to have anything to do with anybody who is racist or bigoted or anti-Semitic.

I don't know how racists live with their racism. We need to take the road of love. I don't think folks are born that way; it's learned and taught out of fear.

In the real world, there's probably nothing more horrifying than racism. Living racism is a horrifying experience. And then, having to normalize it and internalize it.

Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?

Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism.

Discrimination is alive and soaring.

I still find that a kind of stricture of the heart happens when I see any form of bigoted or racist behaviour. I get an actual pain in my heart.

People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.

I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the 'n' word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren't pretty or they weren't rich or they weren't clever.

The world is still very bigoted.

Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.

Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations.

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

Intolerance has been the curse of our country.

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

I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced.

In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest.

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.