Tao Lin Quotes

War, hate, jealousy, racism - what are they but manifestations of fear?

We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler?

While we as members of the Coalition strongly support free speech, it is not unlimited free speech. People aren't free to vilify others on the basis of race or religion.

If I could uninvent anything, I would uninvent Hitler's mum, guns and broccoli.

The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era.

All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white?

We licked the race haters in Europe, but the millions of Jewish dead cannot be restored to life

Bullets, beatings and bombings—not bullshit!

The march of history is accompanied by a steady flow of bodies into the abattoir of hate.

We are the only country that allows and protects hate speech.

Whoever foments and spreads antagonism and hate between the races, sins against humanity.

the graffiti around the library contained several swastikas as well as a variety of "racist, derogatory, and sexist statements. The "most disappointing and discouraging" graffiti was in the men's bathroom. Scrawled on a stall in permanent marker, she says, were swastikas, racist phrases, and the words: "Hail President Trump!"

There is a cost to ignorance and the hate.

Hate has a language, so we have to find a language to combat that.

Racism kills people. It kills people!

I really hate racism because I saw people denied possibilities.

There's this issue where I'm really doing well and got hate 'cause I'm too light-skinned. I understand why people say that - throughout history, the lighter you are, that's how it's been. But it's not my fault. My mom and dad had me! I look how I look.

However, displayed right alongside all the Confederate flag paraphernalia is a bunch of American flag merch – American flag place mats, patriotic “body crystals,” flag stickers you attach to your skin. Personally, I’m small-minded and literal enough that I see the two symbols as contradictory, especially in a time of war. But I fear that the consumer who buys a Confederate flag coffee cup, which she will then put on her American flag place mat, is the sort of sophisticated thinker who is open-minded enough that she is capable of hating blacks and Arabs at the same time.

Racism is wrong, racism is very dangerous.

Why hate someone for the color of their skin when there are much better reasons to hate them?

Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned... Everything is war. Me say war. That until the're no longer 1st class and 2nd class citizens of any nation... Until the color of a man's skin is of no more significa...nce than the color of his eyes, me say war. That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race me say war!

With little knowledge of what it meant to be a Jew, I found myself passionately defending the Jewish people. Now, half a century later, I have to defend my son. Anti-Semitism, I've seen, is like a disease that goes dormant, flaring up with the next political trigger.

I hate niggas! I hate em! I wish they'd let me join the Ku Klux Klan!

Hate demands existence, and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behaviors; in a sense, he has to become hate. That is why the Americans have substituted discrimination for lynching.

Intolerance is a thing that causes war, pogroms, crucifixions, lynchings, and makes people cruel to little children and each other. It is responsible for most of the viciousness, violence, terror, and heart and soul breaking of the world.