Pat Morita Quotes

No one has ever suffered from his people as I have.

I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.

As a child I learned what it meant to be persecuted. But, even then, at the worst of times, I knew there was good in the world.

If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize.

I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.

Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred.

I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion.

I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.

Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.

It's not anthrax or terrorism or AIDS that is the worst ill in our world: The most horrible disease in the world is hate.

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I've picked myself up and gone on.

Gay people are the sweetest, kindest, most artistic, warmest and most thoughtful people in the world. And since the beginning of time all they've ever been is kicked.

Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place to place.

I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.

The power organisation of Israel gives what they can to fight me, to cause me some harm, damages in health, mind, and they succeed little bit, but I survived and I am now free, but it was very hard - a very difficult time - and I wish no one would suffer what I suffered, and then when I speak to you and try to be human being like everyone.

In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

Don't judge me. You wanna judge me, put on a black gown and get a gavel. Get in line with the rest of them that's about to judge me. I got court dates every other month. It's me against the world - that's how I feel.

One man’s exile is but a drop in the sea of human misery

They don't know how to control us. That is why they send us spies, cancerous substances, epidemics and various diseases – because they consider us to be enemies. They consider the entire Arab nation to be their greatest enemy.

Islam is a very evil and wicked religion.

The two things I feared as a boy most were rattlesnakes and white people.

… rigid and homophobic

I spent a long time reporting on trans issues, and I know in the course of that reporting I saw how deeply adversity runs.