Hill Harper Quotes

People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.

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.

The world is still very bigoted.

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

Injustice is either very blatant - you walk down the street and someone calls you a name; you don't get a job because of your gender or your skin color or your sexual preference - but injustice is also very subliminal.

I hate prejudice of any kind, whether it be color or sexual preference.

Prejudice and discrimination based on our differences is an unfortunate fact of life.

You know, anytime you take one group and you blame them for a problem, there is an issue.

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

In martial arts, for every attack, there is a counter you can throw. Somebody traps you, you can throw a hook. But there is no counter for bias.

We need to start looking at some of the root causes of division. And one of the reasons why people are exploited to hate, to fear others is that people are afraid in their own lives.

Discrimination is a bad bad bad thing.

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

I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.

Discrimination is alive and soaring.

Discrimination is a disease.

I still find that a kind of stricture of the heart happens when I see any form of bigoted or racist behaviour. I get an actual pain in my heart.

If you're gay and you can't hold hands, or you're black and you can't catch a taxi, or you're a woman and you can't go into the park, you are aware there's a menace. That's costly on a psychic level. The world should be striving to make all its members secure.

I grew up in the Deep South, where sexism, racism, and homophobia were and still are alive and well. I have early, early memories of words and actions of this type being very painful.

Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations.

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.

You have to be taught to be second class; you're not born that way.

Intolerance has been the curse of our country.

Too many people hate the people that AIDS most affects: gay people and people of color. I do not mean dislike, or feel uncomfortable with. I mean hate. Downright hate. Down and dirty hate.