Gerald Green Quotes

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

Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It's just not a good way to think. It's non-thinking. It's stupid and destructive.

Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.

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.

Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.

We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.

Racism is a sign of ignorance, in my opinion. It's people who haven't been anywhere, haven't seen the world.

Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark?

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

We are not born knowing how to hate; we are taught how to hate.

Generalizing a type of people is really primitive.

Both racism and homophobia come from a sense of the presumed and the unknown.

I don't think I'm a bigot or a racist. But I have a truck, a Blazer. I drink beer. There are some women I do hate.

Anti-Semitism has never gone away; it will always be there because it's a very convenient prejudice. The gene of it, the original DNA, is buried deep within our history. And even within some Jews as well.

The world's a jungle in my eyes, innit? Everything's tribal. If you see someone who don't look like you - especially the colour of your skin - you're going to be suspicious, or not as welcoming or warming, innit? I've learned not to take it too personal.

The people who hate immigrants are people who have never met them!

If you're taught to hate and fear a people or a country, and it works, it's because of your ignorance of that country. You have no contact with it, nor do you know what you're hating and fearing.

Racism exists, but it is far less rampant than ignorance, and ignorance can be cured through experience.

Ignorance breeds fear and hatred.

The very nature of the Chinaman holds him back. If his fellow should fall, John thinks it quite proper that he stamp on the underdogs face.

Fear and Bigotry are bred fom isolation and ignorance. -Shekinah

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives.

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.