Ed Rollins Quotes

The party of Lincoln should be reaching out to blacks, Hispanics gays and so forth and so on.

We don't lump people by groups or special interests. And let me add, in the party of Lincoln there is no room for intolerance and not even a small corner for anti-Semitism or bigotry of any kind. Many people are welcome in our house, but not the bigots.

The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.

Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, 16th President of the United States (Republican, IL)One man's rights should not be sacrificed for another's prejudices. ...

Is the Jew a man? He is bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh, my fellow; and he shall not, if I can prevent it, be a slave! I demand for him equal rights and privileges, and a place within the pale of the Constitution!" Let all the people say, Even so, AMEN!

We, as a party, are colour-blind.

It only takes two seconds of your life to say, 'I don't agree with white supremacy. I don't agree with homophobia.'

I would like to get rid of the homophobes, sexists, and racists in our audience. I know they're out there and it really bothers me.

I try to attack all races and creeds, except the Irish. Clearly they are closest to the angels and don't deserve abuse. But the others have it coming.

Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution.

I joined the Labour party because I believed in equality, in freedom of speech and in tolerance, compassion and understanding for people, irrespective of their background and views. In whatever I decide to do in the future I will hold to those principles.

In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being.

Being the only non-Black was a unique experience. After a few weeks, you're not aware of skin color differences. You see the color; you're not blind, but it doesn't matter. You see the human being first.

I don't care what gender someone is, or what race they are. Those things don't matter to me.

New York doesn't care who you are or where you came from.

We beg you to save young America from the blight of race prejudice. Do not bind the children within the narrow circles of your own lives.

People should have the choice to be able to live where they want to live, go to school where they want to go to school, marry whoever they want to marry regardless of what their complexion is and so forth.

I'm a comedian, and my comedy has never endorsed violence towards gays.

Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.

You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.

South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white.

Surprising as it may seem, this study indicates that similar conditions are best for all sorts of races.

Can I just tell you, I think it's the most beautiful thing about young people today, it gives me so much hope for the future, that they don't really recognize race the way my generation does.

As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races and different colours.

It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.