Anne Rice Quotes

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

Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism.

Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.

At my advanced age, I know I am not an anti-Semite, not even vaguely or remotely, but others would seem to know better, as false accusers always do.

If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.

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.

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.

I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic.

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

There is something uncannily adaptive about anti-Semitism: the way it can hide, unsuspected, in the most progressive minds.

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

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.

Someone who hates one group will end up hating everyone - and, ultimately, hating himself or herself.

In any society, fanatics who hate don't hate only me - they hate you, too. They hate everybody.

The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.

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

Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds.

Racism is a disease which devalues the victim and corrupts the perpetrator.

Muslims have been hating us for centuries ….

… whose hatred of the Jews in unbridgeable.