Reza Aslan Quotes

The show doesn't drive home a lesson, but it can open up people's minds enough for them to see how stupid every kind of prejudice can be.

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

Stereotyping of any race or culture is narrow-minded, and I can't wait to help break the shackles.

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

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

Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

For instance, one big issue in hip hop is the gay thing. It's 2013, and it's a shame that, to this day, that topic still gets people all excited. It's crazy. And it makes me upset that this topic even matters when it comes to hip hop, because it makes it seem like everybody in hip hop is small-minded or stupid - and that's not the case.

Racism and discrimination of any kind have no place in football.

Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.

Color prejudice and religion are akin in one respect. Some folks have it and some don't, and the kernel that is responsible for it is present in us all.

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.

I do think that the worst thing that a parent can do is to teach children to hate—prejudice.

Our leaders must hold themselves to a higher standard and ensure their words and actions do not promote hate or hurtful anti-Semitic stereotypes.

No civilization has a monopoly on tolerance; each is capable of bigotry.

People are always going to, you know, find something wrong with people who are not the exact same as them. That's just what it is. Black, white, short, tall, religions, whatever. People are bad.

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 thought Christians were walking idiots.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.

It appears to be in the nature of religion itself to be prejudiced against those who are different.

A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.

I'm not any kind of a bigot, I'm not.

Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.

Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.