Janet Reno Quotes

I think any stereotyping is too much.

… cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.

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

I recognise that, while I was fortunate enough to grow up without any discrimination or stigma attached at all, other people haven't been so lucky.

There's something not right with a person's soul when they judge another human being to be less adequate because of their gender or skin color.

We have tolerance, respect, and equality in our written laws but not in the hearts of some of our people.

It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.

Discrimination is a disease.

Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected.

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

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.

What a stupid attitude we have in this country to personal stories.

Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.

They taught me different was wrong.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

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

Racial discrimination is wrong and racial preference is just as wrong.

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

It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to search for prejudices among the beliefs and values that we hold.

Discrimination is not a national defense strategy!

We've come a long way, but there is still a lot of discrimination.

It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point.

Injustice is either very blatant - you walk down the street and someone calls you a name; you don't get a job because of your gender or your skin color or your sexual preference - but injustice is also very subliminal.

You know what should be banned? Stuff that's whack. The world is controversial. The world is classist. The world is racist.

All societies wrestle with the scourge of prejudice, but validating that prejudice in statute makes a virtue of oppression.