Tim Cook Quotes

There is again a rising fever and anger towards those seen as different.

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.

They always try to make it like jocks discriminate against gay people. I've been a big proponent of gay marriage for a long time, because as a black person, I can't be in for any form of discrimination at all.

The awful lesson of history is that we too often ignore people, just because they're foreigners or different from us.

Of all the ways people save time, I think racism is the worst.

Racial prejudice is of ignorance. There is no place for it.

There's the continuing challenges of racism, of sexism, of discrimination against the LGBT community, of the way that we treat people as opposed to how we want to be treated.

Gay people don't have a personality problem. They have a problem with small-minded motherfuckers who can't conquer a 1-inch high curb.

God knows, as a minority, gay people have taken serious lumps for their sexual preferences. As has every minority.

I was raised with this idea that we're supposed to be tolerant of other people's opinions, but then what happens if other people's opinions are racist and hateful and wrong?

[ Tucker Carlson] thought that was the paramount example of discrimination and bigotry and all of these buzzwords these people use.

At the end of the day, if millions of people come together and say, we are not going to be a xenophobic society, we are not going to be throwing millions of Latinos out of this country, we are not going to be a racist society, we're not going to be a sexist society, we will prevail.

I really think that discrimination and racism is a horrible thing. And I don't want any form of it in our government, in our public sphere.

There's just so many facets, I think, of the ignorance in our society that have to be corrected if we're really going to have a democratic society and a society that is just and that respects all of the members of this society regardless of who they are, what color they may be, what sexual orientation that they have or what gender, you know, they happen to be.

I don't get this at all. It's like protesting the fact that some people are red-haired.

When I was given this job I said I would only teach the people that I truly, truly love. Unfortunately, none of those happen to be Chinese, or women.

Even as considering African-Americans, immigrants and other groups who may be marginalized in different ways, American Muslims are still one of the most marginalized groups. Overt prejudice is probably more acceptable toward American Muslims than any other single group in the U.S. There is still a lot of policies in place that are incredibly effective that don't show any signs of eroding. So, I don't want to overstate the optimism but I think things are headed gradually in the right direction. Just because of the distance between us and 9/11.

Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter.

Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.

You tend to be afraid when someone seems foreign to you. But if you aren't careful, that can lead to bigotry.

There's no such thing as reverse racism.

A child from the age of 2 or 3 absorbs what is in the environment and what generates hatred for anyone perceived to be different.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

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

In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'