Colton Underwood Quotes

It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.

Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.

People aren't born racist.

I don't have prejudices against anybody. I have opinions, based on a lifetime's experience.

Racism has a very quick expiration date when exposed to actual contact with people.

If I look smart and feel confident, other people's bigoted assumptions have less power to harm me.

Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

There's nothing I love more in life than turning around a bigot.

Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.

No one is born hating others.

I am certainly not racist; I even like the British.

I don't like people being cautious and tentative and choosing their words carefully around me because I'm a dwarf.

People do get ridiculed for liking us or because they look the way they do and they're a part of what we do.

If I'm racist, don't think I would have directed shows like 'The Parkers' and 'The Wayans Brothers' or worked 41 episodes with Victoria Rowell on 'Diagnosis: Murder.'

If you don't acknowledge differences, it's as bad as stereotyping or reducing someone.

Nobody wants to be racist and I think that most people aren't.

Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity.

Statistically, I'd say there are about as many gay figure skaters as there are gay football players. The majority are straight. There are just those few exceptions, and those are the ones who have gotten picked on and followed over the years.

You can legislate against discrimination, but you can't legislate compassion, understanding and good will.

I found no better way of dealing with the race problem as to interact with all other people as if discrimination did not exist.

Experience tells us that people are not born with the innate ability nor the wish to see the Other as an equal individual in society. Pride in one’s separate identity can be so strong that it obscures the intrinsic value of other identities. Pluralism is a value that must be taught.

If we are going to teach the world not to hate the other, then we will have to start with children.

Don't let anyone keep you down for silly reasons such as who you are.

I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they're men or women.

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.