Randall Terry Quotes

I was raised with this idea that we're supposed to be tolerant of other people's opinions, but then what happens if other people's opinions are racist and hateful and wrong?

All people deserve respect, but not all ideas do.

If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

I just think political correctness is crap.

I have never claimed to do the right kind of things and make politically correct statements.

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

I'm not politically correct; I never said I was.

I’ll defend your right to be a bigot.

People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.

I don't try to be politically correct.

If you're always in the company of people who agree with you, you're going to think of people who don't agree with you as venal or stupid. I constantly tell my students that if they're in the company of people who always say "amen" to what you say, find other company. And that is the source of illiberalism, when you are unable to listen to someone who thinks differently. That's when democracies are in trouble.

No nation like the United States of America can continue to grow and be a strong nation if we are going to judge people because they disagree with our agenda rather than the content of their statements. We have to be critical thinkers. We have to be analytical. We should understand facts from emotion.

It's pretty hard to offend me. I actually think people are a little too easily offended.

Everybody has an opinion. I think everybody has the right to believe whatever they want. I don't ever cast judgment on someone's belief system.

Some people are just afraid of what's different. It doesn't mean different is bad. It just means different is different.

I think art should be controversial. I think it should make people think.

I think it just came with me evolving as a person and me understanding that it's not right to judge or to say anything derogatory about other people, especially if I don't know them.

Do I have opinions that might piss people off? Yes - that's what I'm here for.

I call on you not to hate, because hate does not leave space for a person to be fair and it makes you blind and closes all doors of thinking.

The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to bigotry. And I think it's one of the reasons that some people don't like the books, but I think that's it's a very healthy message to pass on to younger people that you should question authority and you should not assume that the establishment or the press tells you all of the truth.

Some people never change their mind through their whole lives, about anything, despite new information that comes in. And now that we know that homosexuality is not a choice, it's biological, I think we have to love and understand them.

Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles.

I don't believe in this idea of, 'That's hate speech, stop it.'

I hate political correctness.

I don't comment on other people's opinion.