Benjamin Watson Quotes

Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.

Everyone knows their wrong from right, so when people are being racist, they know they're being ignorant.

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

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.

Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.

I'm not a racist, and I'm not a murderer.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

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.

An evil remains an evil whether practiced by white against black or black against white.

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

Racists are deficient as human beings.

If we stand idly by while states legalize bigotry, we are responsible for allowing it to happen.

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

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.

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

The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.

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

Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.

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

Is it not because there reigns in the breast of many who are leaders a most unrighteous, unbecoming, and impure black principle, and as corrupt and unholy as it can be--while these very same unfeeling, self-esteemed characters pretend to take the skin as a pretext to keep us from our unalienable and lawful rights?

Dear Nigger-lover:

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

It is a sin peculiar to man to hate his victim.

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.