Jane Elliott Quotes

Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.

Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.

Or a White Englishman would rather smash a White Frenchman than a Jew! Crazy!

No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.

In England, I've never really had a problem with racism.

Race hate isn't human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.

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

My worthy subjects, citizens of the Invisible Empire, Klansmen all, greetings. It grieves me to be late. The President of the United States kept me unduly long counseling on matters of state. Only my plea that this is the time and the place of my coronation obtained for me surcease from his prayers for guidance.

Nothing in the world causes more problems than concepts of ethnic virtue. It's irrelevant.

When people today say 'racism,' they mean it's a nationalism they don't like. Racialism used to be a good thing, a looking-out for what was best for one group... Israel comes out of that 19th-century idea of nationalism. Many Arab states also have preferences. It's fundamentally unfair to decide that one is racism and the others aren't.

Stereotyping of any race or culture is narrow-minded, and I can't wait to help break the shackles.

I was racially discriminated against for years as a child in Leeds because I was an Italian.

I'm certainly not a white supremacist.

Racism really, really makes me mad. I can see identical traits in people from other sides of the world and I can't believe some people would treat other human beings like they weren't even the same species.

This business of demonizing or pre-defining people by the way they look, the religion that they practice, or where they came from is not only un-American but it's going to hurt America.

I mean, we're not talking about simply racism, we're taking about white supremacy.

When we look at that jingoism and the sexism and the racism and the homophobia, that's not who we are, and that's not the country that I want my daughter to grow up in.

I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.

My dad remembers being in school with my uncle, and the teacher would say outright to the class that the Japanese were second-class citizens and shouldn't be trusted.

We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.

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

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

Racism is a sign of ignorance, in my opinion. It's people who haven't been anywhere, haven't seen the world.