Jane Velez-Mitchell Quotes

Sometimes, unfortunately, hatred is more powerful than progress.

Bigotry should never be sanctioned, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.

There is something uncannily adaptive about anti-Semitism: the way it can hide, unsuspected, in the most progressive minds.

Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

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.

There is again a rising fever and anger towards those seen as different.

Evil or atrocity often explodes from a furnace built from the steady accretion of small, unchallenged wrong.

It is amazing to hear grown-up people rationalize homophobia and discrimination. The lengths they go to trying to prove their points take reason to its breaking point.

We may be more sophisticated in how we hide it, but there are still so many phobias in this world, whether it's Islamophobia, xenophobia or homophobia. I've been trying to do things that expose and help teach and draw attention to all of the 'isms' and how we do or don't deal with them in our world.

Racists are deficient as human beings.

Homophobia obviously still exists, but it is a lot more subtle, and it is a lot more in the background.

Although it was common in our culture to complain a lot - about friends, relatives, business partners, bad luck, and the general cluelessness of non-Jews - we were not permitted to complain that anti-Semitism and discrimination were standing in our way.

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

Homophobia is not the monopoly of any one country, culture, or religion.

If someone was ever racist towards me, I would go wild.

There's a lot of hate in the world.

If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest.

If we stand idly by while states legalize bigotry, we are responsible for allowing it to happen.

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

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.

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!

We've never been anti-Semitic.

If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.