Sacha Baron Cohen Quotes

When you dehumanize a group, there's lasting consequences because they know that they're being dehumanized.

Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter.

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

If you think about it, there's not a religious group, there's not a nationalistic group, there's not a tribe, there is no grouping of people to my knowledge, of any consequence, who have not, at one or another time, been the object of hatred, racism, or who has not had people against them just because they were them.

It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.

I've had to deal with racism, sexism, rumors, malice, a little bit of everything.

Othering people is something that humans have done for ever.

The proliferation of bans fuels stereotypes and discriminates against a community.

Going into a room and saying, 'I'm a black lesbian' - it's a strike against you.

Demonization of people on the basis of race, religion, sexual orientation, or other criteria leads to dehumanization. The notion that some are 'other' is a dangerous and slippery slope.

Dwarves are still the butt of jokes. It's one of the last bastions of acceptable prejudice.

Even if I don't always behave as I should, this still doesn't explain why so many people have something against me. But you know how it is. A lot of people vent themselves by coming to the stadium to yell at me. I hope it's not racism. I tell myself that it's not racism; it's because I'm tough, and I repeat this to myself.

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

Over the years, my marks on paper have landed me in all sorts of courts and controversies - I have been comprehensively labelled; anti-this and anti-that, anti-social, anti-football, anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-Semitic, anti-science, anti-republican, anti-American, anti-Australian - to recall just an armful of the antis.

As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.

Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.

Discrimination is alive and soaring.

I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the 'n' word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren't pretty or they weren't rich or they weren't clever.

No corner of the world is free from group scorn.

All labels are offensive in some way.

In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people - and to hate those other people.

Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.

You see, that's the problem I have with 'you people.'

The devastating repercussions of hate-filled language manifest in very real ways for today's LGBTQ youth.

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.