Sasha Velour Quotes

This is an industry rife with racism, sexism and homophobia. It is so closely woven into the fabric of the business that we have become snowblind to the glaring injustices happening every day.

It's a shame, racism still exists.

I've known that people were racist and misogynistic and homophobic since I was very little.

I'm sick of seeing the immigrants in the hotels and the Italians who sleep in cars. This is the racist country.

Racism isn't just in America... Alienation is felt worldwide in different capacities.

Throughout college and law school, as well as in my career as a lawyer and police reform advocate, I've faced various toxic combinations of racism, sexism, and homophobia.

Racism was never acceptable to the people who suffer from it.

Discrimination is alive and soaring.

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.

I grew up in the Deep South, where sexism, racism, and homophobia were and still are alive and well. I have early, early memories of words and actions of this type being very painful.

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

Intolerance has been the curse of our country.

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

I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced.

Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times.

In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest.

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

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

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.

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

The singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply.

I grieve, however, that anyone could be stupid enough, in any part of our country, to arrest the Vice-Presidential candidate of a recognized party because, on his way to speak to citizens of the United States, he tried to go through a door which was marked as the entrance for people of color. It seems to me completely incredible that, in a State where colored people are allowed to enlist and go to war and be killed for their country, there should exist anything so senseless as a rule which forces human beings to enter through separate doors according to their color. It is fundamentally un-Christian and wrong.

Discrimination is not a national defense strategy!