Frankie Boyle Quotes

'Those people' is a bad word.

Our family were outsiders, and I've always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded.

You see, that's the problem I have with 'you people.'

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

Oppressed strangers in our land…

Demonizing the other does not help our cause and does bad things to us.

Denying any person their humanity is a game we should all stop playing.

Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.

Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

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.

There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic.

Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes.

It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.

I remember people saying: 'You look funny, your hair is so black, you have a flat nose,' but I didn't think of it being racism, and I still don't. But there was a sense of difference, of being an outsider.

All labels are offensive in some way.

Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.

An agent said he didn't know what to do with me, I wouldn't be able to play any parts but lesbians and aliens.

I think the world of 'District 9' has a lot of race and oppression-based ideas that I would still like to explore in that world.

When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.

The biggest abuses in society happen when people are not able to communicate and not able to connect.

If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other is a lie. There are no other people. Race is a social construct.

The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in America. But color was something else. Reds were murdered like wild animals. Yellows were characterized as a peril and incarcerated en masse during World War II for no really good reason by our most liberal President. Browns have been abused as the new slave labor on farms. The blacks, who did not come here willingly, are now, more than a century after emancipation by Lincoln, still suffering a host of slavelike inequalities.

Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation.

The thing that upsets me the most is the entitlement of people that will stand with a flag and say to some other people that they need to go back to where they came from. When, in fact, they also would need to go back to where they came from, because you need to go all the way back to the beginning.