Jagmeet Singh Quotes

We need to recognize that it is growing economic inequality that creates the conditions for hate to fester.

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.

Intolerance has been the curse of our country.

Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times.

In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest.

It's not anthrax or terrorism or AIDS that is the worst ill in our world: The most horrible disease in the world is hate.

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.

You've got to be taught to hate and fear.

Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another.

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

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Racism is the greatest cancer of my lifetime.

There's still a really divisive residue in our nation that's called racism and prejudice and oppression and sexism.

Whether it is tribalism, racism, xenophobia, or anti-Muslim backlash we're talking about, we spend so much time and energy fighting ways to divide ourselves from others.

Racism is a problem everywhere, especially in this country, but all over the world, and especially within queer space.

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.

Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

We all have inherited so many types of fears, whether they're race-based, culture-based, gender-based, age-based, family-based. And then we get comfortable with these fears.

I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared you scapegoat people. It exacerbates latent tendencies toward - well, toward racism or homophobia or anti-Semitism.

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.

In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.

Discrimination is alive and soaring.

Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.