Eric Greitens Quotes

Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize the differences that separate him from the majority. The country club opens its doors to Jews. The university welcomes African-Americans. Heterosexuals extend the privilege of marriage to the gay community.

Discrimination is not liberal. Arguing against discrimination is not intolerance.

I don't much care who is gay or straight or married or not. I mostly notice if they are brave enough to confront bigotry.

The show doesn't drive home a lesson, but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.

I am certainly not racist; I even like the British.

In the 21st Century there is no place for Xenephobia, Anti-Semitism of any other form of discrimination.

I'm not homophobic in the slightest. I have lots of gay friends.

In my experience, I've loved all races. It's not like I can only be with my people.

I'm not homophobic and I'm not anti-gay.

People who were gay were pitied and ridiculed by my parents - they had no modern sense of people being allowed to be who they were.

What do you mean you don't believe in homosexuality? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary.

No government, no organisation, no citizen can afford to be less than vigilant in combating bigotry, intolerance and hatred. And frankly, our way of life depends on that vigilance.

Unfortunately, in some parts of the country, some kids are taught at an early age that being different is somehow bad or wrong or worthy of ridicule.

Be yourself. And if you're not accepted by your family, there will be people who will accept you.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

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

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.

I think people feel threatened by homosexuality. The problem isn't about gay people, the problem is about the attitude towards gay people. People think that all gays are Hannibal Lecters. But gay people are sons and daughters, politicians and doctors, American heroes and daughters of American heroes.

I remember while I was at school some of my Muslim friends talked about a handful of people spoiling things in every culture. Hatred or hurt or pain isn't specific to a religion. I think it's a matter of acceptance. The one thing the world has to accept is everybody is different. What is normal to us is different and unusual to somebody else.

I think the moral majority and religious right have been shrinking and having not quite as loud a voice in America, and all of a sudden people are coming to their own realizations going, 'Joe down the street is gay and he's a great guy.'

Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.

In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.

I most certainly am not harboring any sort of negative feeling toward the gay community. I don't have an opinion on people with different religious, sexual or political preferences. I'm one of the most liberal artists that I think you will ever meet, and I pride myself on that.

If you're gay or religious you're always hearing this word tolerance. It's a pathetic word. It's actually just a politically correct word for the term intolerance.

If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.