Robert Byrd Quotes

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

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

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.

Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.

Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there.

I'm not anti-Semitic. I'm anti-white.

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.

Racists are deficient as human beings.

You cannot sit quiet while the KKK and other white supremacist groups rear their ugly heads.

But when I was doing the KKK I had constant nightmares of being exposed as a Jew and lynched by the Klan.

Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states.

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

There are evil people, and I don't even want to hear those guys speak.

Too many people hate the people that AIDS most affects: gay people and people of color. I do not mean dislike, or feel uncomfortable with. I mean hate. Downright hate. Down and dirty hate.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

You're absolutely right: Bob Grant is a racist, Bob Grant is a bigot, he's a despicable talk show host and I agree with that.

Stone Mountain, Georgia, still had Ku Klux Klan marches, and I had a wild and courageous mother who'd put us in the car to watch them. She wanted us to know those things existed.

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.

I'm not a racist, and I'm not a murderer.

Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

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

If you want social change in this country, if you want the homos shoved back in the closet, if you want the border with Mexico sealed, if you want the illegal aliens rounded up and deported out of the country, if you want the niggers and the spics to stop beating up, raping, robbing white people; well, guess what folks, it’s going to take violence… That’s the reality. It is going to take violence.

Dear Nigger-lover: