William Apess Quotes

Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.

Every type of discrimination whether social or cultural, whether based on sex, race, social condition, language or religion, is to be overcome and eradicated as contrary to God's intent.

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.

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights as Americans, in which a hate crime perpetrated against someone based their sexual orientation can go unpunished, and in which discrimination is being written into our laws.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

Any time I saw people treated unfairly because of race, creed, whatever - it struck a nerve.

We don’t treat racism by practicing racism.

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

Devils are worse than Indians.

The negro, whom a million Americans died to free, is, in present bond and future promise still a slave, whipped by circumstance, trodden under foot by iron and ineradicable prejudice; shut out forever from the opportunities which are the heritage of liberty, and, holding in his black hand the hollow parchment of his franchise as a freeman, looks through a slave's eyes at the impassable barriers which imprison him forever within the progress and achievement of a dominant and all-conquering race.

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

It is not just Negroes but all of us, who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice.

Even here in Boston, we are informed, pride and prejudice have got to such a pitch, that in the very houses erected to the Lord they have built little places for the reception of colored people, where they must sit during meeting, or keep away from the house of God. Hypocrisy could hardly go further than that of preachers who could not see the evils at their door but could send out missionaries to convert the heathen, notwithstanding.

Injustice is either very blatant - you walk down the street and someone calls you a name; you don't get a job because of your gender or your skin color or your sexual preference - but injustice is also very subliminal.

I had a long time admiration for the Jewish people. Especially with their long time of courage, taking so much abuse for so long. I was only seven years old, but I could easily see the ungodly treatment that the white folks were handing the poor Jewish family whom I worked for.

You know what should be banned? Stuff that's whack. The world is controversial. The world is classist. The world is racist.

I have suffered racial prejudice, and I know how painful it is. People need to take this issue more seriously and engage in this fight against racism.

Political hypocrisy and racism make me hot under the collar.

There are serious issues of inequality and injustice in this country... I stand with those opposing such bigotry.

There's something not right with a person's soul when they judge another human being to be less adequate because of their gender or skin color.

Racism - whether it's in football or society, there's absolutely no place for it.

Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.

Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.

It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.