Donna Brazile Quotes

Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.

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

Hatred, bigotry, and discrimination have no place in our country. We must work hard to make sure that America remains an inclusive and respectful country.

My values - going back to my childhood - were always based on respect for all people and rejection of bigotry and racism.

Dear America, when you tell gay Americans that they can't serve their country openly or marry the person that they love, you're telling that to kids too. So don't be f**king shocked and wonder where all these bullies are coming from that are torturing young kids and driving them to kill themselves because they're different; they learned it from watching you.

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.

We must never remain silent in the face of bigotry. We must condemn those who seek to divide us. In all quarters and at all times, we must teach tolerance and denounce racism, anti-Semitism and all ethnic or religious bigotry wherever they exist as unacceptable evils. We have no place for haters in America -- none, whatsoever.

No matter what race we are, what ethnic background, sexual orientation, or what views we may have, we are all human. Unfortunately, not all humans see it that way.

We have a lot more work to do in our common struggle against bigotry and discrimination. I say "common struggle" because I believe very strongly that all forms of bigotry and discrimination are equally wrong and should be opposed by right-thinking Americans everywhere. Freedom from discrimination based on sexual orientation is surely a fundamental human right in any great democracy, as much as freedom from racial, religious, gender, or ethnic discrimination.

In some perfect world where human nature is less messy and history less fraught, any and all people who had ever suffered discrimination would find common cause, gathering together under one big anti-bigotry banner.

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

The final battle against intolerance is to be fought - not in the chambers of any legislature - but in the hearts of men.

People - whatever their race, religion, sexual preference - deserve to be treated as human beings.

I believe that those who promote discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or any other grounds are gravely mistaken about the values that make our nation strong. I will continue to move my administration in the direction of compassion, acceptance, and understanding.

If you see bigotry, oppose it.

All my life I have fought against prejudice and intolerance.

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

There's nothing I love more in life than turning around a bigot.

The Trail of Tears should teach all of us the importance of respect for others who are different from ourselves and compassion for those who have difficulties.

And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.

I'm not homophobic, I'm not a bigot, I'm not pandering to hatred.

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

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society.