Larry Kramer Quotes

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there.

Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?

Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They'll kill for racism but they won't die for racism.

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.

Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.

Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

If anyone wants to abuse other people for whatever colour, race or creed they are, then it's just stupidness, isn't it?

Racism is a disease which devalues the victim and corrupts the perpetrator.

An evil remains an evil whether practiced by white against black or black against white.

The singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply.

I grieve, however, that anyone could be stupid enough, in any part of our country, to arrest the Vice-Presidential candidate of a recognized party because, on his way to speak to citizens of the United States, he tried to go through a door which was marked as the entrance for people of color. It seems to me completely incredible that, in a State where colored people are allowed to enlist and go to war and be killed for their country, there should exist anything so senseless as a rule which forces human beings to enter through separate doors according to their color. It is fundamentally un-Christian and wrong.

Even here in Boston, we are informed, pride and prejudice have got to such a pitch, that in the very houses erected to the Lord they have built little places for the reception of colored people, where they must sit during meeting, or keep away from the house of God. Hypocrisy could hardly go further than that of preachers who could not see the evils at their door but could send out missionaries to convert the heathen, notwithstanding.

Racism is endemic to the human condition, just as stupidity is. We will always have to be on guard against it. But now it is recognized as a scourge, as the crowning immorality of our age and our history.

I had a long time admiration for the Jewish people. Especially with their long time of courage, taking so much abuse for so long. I was only seven years old, but I could easily see the ungodly treatment that the white folks were handing the poor Jewish family whom I worked for.

I've known that people were racist and misogynistic and homophobic since I was very little.

I hate a bully, and I hate racists.

Anti-Semitism or discrimination of any kind has no place in our society.

I do not want to have anything to do with anybody who is racist or bigoted or anti-Semitic.

While our country has made great strides, the Jewish community is still the target of anti-Semitism, and we must continue to stand against all forms of hate, violence, and bigotry.

I really hate racism because I saw people denied possibilities.

Anti-Semitism is a form of racism, and all forms of racism are horrible.

Homophobia hurts our league. Racism hurts it. Sexism hurts it.

I don't know how racists live with their racism. We need to take the road of love. I don't think folks are born that way; it's learned and taught out of fear.