Joe Morton Quotes

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

People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.

The world is still very bigoted.

It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives.

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.

I remember people saying: 'You look funny, your hair is so black, you have a flat nose,' but I didn't think of it being racism, and I still don't. But there was a sense of difference, of being an outsider.

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.

I think people feel like other people are very different from them... And that people who are different from them are actually sort of unworthy of the same rights or empathy. I don't understand that.

Racial events in our game, which we are trying as hard as we can to eradicate, are always going to happen. You hope that it is something that doesn't escalate. Sometimes when times are harder they become more prevalent.

Racism is very prevalent and alive... in this country and in this world.

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

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.

As a child growing up in San Francisco in the 1950s, I sometimes met insults when I ventured outside of Chinatown or my neighborhood. I have even been spat on and threatened with a knife. I could have let my anger fester until it became hate. However, I realized they were isolated incidents, and I simply got on with my life.

I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida.

I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the 'n' word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren't pretty or they weren't rich or they weren't clever.

Australia turns out to be a sensational place, albeit one of the most comfortably racist places I've ever been in. They've really settled into their intolerance like an old resentful slipper.

There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic.

Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations.

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

Intolerance has been the curse of our country.

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

I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.

You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.