Patsy Takemoto Mink Quotes

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

One thing lots of Christians do have in common is that they can't help coming across as smug. This winds lots of people up, particularly because famous Christians pronounce on the life of the poor from their very lovely affluent homes filled with their very lovely families and attractive pets.

Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.

It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.

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

Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There's one more argument for birth control.

There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

I think in our society we too often choose the people we associate with based on our own hasty judgments.

Is it not because there reigns in the breast of many who are leaders a most unrighteous, unbecoming, and impure black principle, and as corrupt and unholy as it can be--while these very same unfeeling, self-esteemed characters pretend to take the skin as a pretext to keep us from our unalienable and lawful rights?

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

America is like a melting pot. The people at the bottom get burned, and the scum floats to the top.

The typical white intellectual considers himself superior to ordinary white people for two contradictory reasons: a) he constantly proclaims belief in human equality, but they don't ; b) he has a high IQ, but they don't.

You know what should be banned? Stuff that's whack. The world is controversial. The world is classist. The world is racist.

Political hypocrisy and racism make me hot under the collar.

I haven't experienced a lot of prejudice in my life, but I'm not naive to what goes on in the world.

Only if you were lucky to be born in the right class, the one Donald Trump was born in, then of course you have a beautiful view of the world. You find that everybody else is an imbecile, because he doesn't think like you, he doesn't dress like you, he doesn't have the same girl as you, etc. But I call that ignorance.

Discrimination will impair democracy.

Sin is the reason we are racist, prejudiced, and lie to cover for our own.

Looking around at the faces of the home support at Gillingham, the irony was never lost on me that these people had the cheek to call me a 'freak.' Perhaps they should have taken a look at themselves first.

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

Racism is the snobbery of the poor.

It's horrible how money and fame can make you acceptable while, if you're not famous or rich, you're not acceptable.

People always want to think that because you're not from a certain circumstance, you can't relate. That's ridiculous.