Katherine Paterson Quotes

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

The world is still very bigoted.

Often in red states you find racism, and where you find racism, you also find sexism.

Prejudice and discrimination based on our differences is an unfortunate fact of life.

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.

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

Prejudice hasn't changed to this day, not in golf. Maybe in other sports.

I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

It's interesting to take a look at people who deal with prejudice on a daily basis - it's been a real eye opener for me.

If anyone wants to abuse other people for whatever colour, race or creed they are, then it's just stupidness, isn't it?

The singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply.

I do think that the worst thing that a parent can do is to teach children to hate—prejudice.

Racism and sexism, misogyny and homophobia, they're so visible. They're out in the open. When they're visible, it's a lot easier to deal with them.

Race prejudice has nothing to do with color. It has to do with being the stranger.

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.

We may be more sophisticated in how we hide it, but there are still so many phobias in this world, whether it's Islamophobia, xenophobia or homophobia. I've been trying to do things that expose and help teach and draw attention to all of the 'isms' and how we do or don't deal with them in our world.

Anti-Semitism has never gone away; it will always be there because it's a very convenient prejudice. The gene of it, the original DNA, is buried deep within our history. And even within some Jews as well.

It's a shame, racism still exists.

Profiling any segment of society and viewing them as a threat is a sign of intolerance.

I think people feel like other people are very different from them... And that people who are different from them are actually sort of unworthy of the same rights or empathy. I don't understand that.

Racial events in our game, which we are trying as hard as we can to eradicate, are always going to happen. You hope that it is something that doesn't escalate. Sometimes when times are harder they become more prevalent.

Racism is very prevalent and alive... in this country and in this world.

Racism seduces us with its desire to categorize, shutting out the living and breathing and 'different' world all around us.