DeRay Mckesson Quotes

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

A society which emphasizes uniformity is one which creates intolerance and hate.

I've been there; I've been in the minority before. It humbles the exalted. But that's all right.

The fundamental thing that makes the 'X-Men' different from every other series out there is it's all about prejudice. It's about a group of young people trying to make a place in a society that doesn't want them.

A week before shooting, they told me, You don't have the part, yet. We're still trying to find a handicapped kid who can act. Either that or we break your legs.

Discrimination is alive and soaring.

If you're gay and you can't hold hands, or you're black and you can't catch a taxi, or you're a woman and you can't go into the park, you are aware there's a menace. That's costly on a psychic level. The world should be striving to make all its members secure.

No corner of the world is free from group scorn.

Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people - and to hate those other people.

There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.

I was too Jewish for 'Flashdance.'

You've got to be taught to hate and fear.

The politics of exclusion is the politics of defeat.

Those fighting to be included in the ideal of equality are not being divisive; those fighting to keep those people out are.

Discrimination is not a national defense strategy!

The 'X-Men' stories are the stories of outsiders: people who don't fit into normal society and are ostracised; it's a metaphor for gender, race, or sexual orientation.

I hate prejudice of any kind, whether it be color or sexual preference.

It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.

Our societies have experienced the magic that occurs when pluralism flourishes and the marginalized assume their proper powers. But loss stalks those victories, as millions revolt against change and supremacies resurface.

Ageism is a variation of racism or sexism, all the other isms.

Men continue to misinterpret the second-rate status of women as implying a privileged status for themselves; heterosexuals think the same way about homosexuals; gentiles about Jews; whites about blacks; haves about have-nots.

Labels, boxes, and politically correct terminology all seem small and irrelevant when being compared to the violent and brutal attacks on the lives of people who are different than what society says we should be.

Homophobia, racism, and sexism are all rooted in the same oppression that causes a group of people to internalize the oppression they've experienced and then continue the cycle of abuse. Simply put, hurt people hurt people.

All the excuses that people in power used to make for not telling diverse stories or including diverse people, they've proven to be false.