John Conyers Quotes

Is it not because there reigns in the breast of many who are leaders a most unrighteous, unbecoming, and impure black principle, and as corrupt and unholy as it can be--while these very same unfeeling, self-esteemed characters pretend to take the skin as a pretext to keep us from our unalienable and lawful rights?

Imagine living in a state where businesses can legally refuse to serve people based on their sexual orientation. Where parents can force their children to undergo conversion therapy to 'cure' them of their 'homosexual tendencies.'

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.

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

Many people secretly think that gays are a lot happier than they are, and want to punish them.

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.

I grieve, however, that anyone could be stupid enough, in any part of our country, to arrest the Vice-Presidential candidate of a recognized party because, on his way to speak to citizens of the United States, he tried to go through a door which was marked as the entrance for people of color. It seems to me completely incredible that, in a State where colored people are allowed to enlist and go to war and be killed for their country, there should exist anything so senseless as a rule which forces human beings to enter through separate doors according to their color. It is fundamentally un-Christian and wrong.

We've come a long way, but there is still a lot of discrimination.

I always felt the 'X-Men,' in a subtle way, often touched upon the subject of racism and inequality, and I believe that subject has come up in other titles, too. But we would never pound hard on the subject, which must be handled with care and intelligence.

Racism is endemic to the human condition, just as stupidity is. We will always have to be on guard against it. But now it is recognized as a scourge, as the crowning immorality of our age and our history.

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

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

I do think homophobia is rife, as it always has been.

Discrimination will impair democracy.

I don't draw any distinctions between forms of bigotry or forms of ideology that lose sight of the humanity of people. I can't stand white supremacy. I can't stand male supremacy. I can't stand imperial subjugation. I can't stand homophobia.

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

If we stand idly by while states legalize bigotry, we are responsible for allowing it to happen.

No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.

Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?

The idea of some people being less than people is poison to any society and needs to be named as such in order to halt its spread before it turns the soul of a society septic.

People must realize that a crime motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice against one group is a crime against all of us.

Racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, anything Nazi and a boatload of other things have no place in my life.

Discrimination is alive and soaring.

Discrimination is a disease.