Stephen Fry Quotes

Ageism is a variation of racism or sexism, all the other isms.

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

I've had to deal with racism, sexism, rumors, malice, a little bit of everything.

Demonization of people on the basis of race, religion, sexual orientation, or other criteria leads to dehumanization. The notion that some are 'other' is a dangerous and slippery slope.

Less racist now but it has been. I don't think it's been completely stamped out. There's a class element to it. And who's supposed to do what. You're very unlikely to get a gay grip.

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

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

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

No corner of the world is free from group scorn.

I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.

You see, that's the problem I have with 'you people.'

The law of dislike for the unlike will always prevail…unlike is normally situated at a safe distance.

If you think about it, there's not a religious group, there's not a nationalistic group, there's not a tribe, there is no grouping of people to my knowledge, of any consequence, who have not, at one or another time, been the object of hatred, racism, or who has not had people against them just because they were them.

When you have demonization of a group of people, it's easy to clump them all together and not understand them.

This is an industry rife with racism, sexism and homophobia. It is so closely woven into the fabric of the business that we have become snowblind to the glaring injustices happening every day.

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.

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

It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.

Both racism and homophobia come from a sense of the presumed and the unknown.

I don't think I'm a bigot or a racist. But I have a truck, a Blazer. I drink beer. There are some women I do hate.

Othering people is something that humans have done for ever.

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

Homophobia hurts our league. Racism hurts it. Sexism hurts it.

Throughout college and law school, as well as in my career as a lawyer and police reform advocate, I've faced various toxic combinations of racism, sexism, and homophobia.

Whatever a 'superior' group has will be used to justify its superiority, and whatever an 'inferior' group has will be used to justify its plight. Black men were given poorly paid jobs because they were said to be 'stronger' than white men, while all women were relegated to poorly paid jobs because they were said to be 'weaker.