Evonne Goolagong Cawley Quotes

Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.

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 worst moment in my life was when I was seven years old and I discovered that there was a thing such as racism. You don't know you're different until someone lets you know.

That's what is always fascinating about racism - how it is allowed, if not encouraged, to flourish freely in public spaces, the way racism and bigotry are so often unquestioned.

I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced.

A decent man who doesn't consider himself a bigot can indeed be trained to behave like a bigot if he welcomes feedback exclusively from those who consider bigotry no big deal or, indeed, an attribute to be admired.

When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

That's a good thing; that's a damn good thing. We can use that to keep the niggers in their place.

Peddling to racism is just as bad as being a racist.

There's got to be a zero tolerance to racism, anti-Semitism, any form of division and intolerance.

I don't condone racism. I don't condone prejudice.

There was so much racism when I was a kid, but it was also ignorant.

Racism holds no place in our game and it holds no place in society. But unfortunately there are going to be incidents.

I usually say something if I hear someone I know saying something I think is racist with malicious intent.

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

Racism exists, but it is far less rampant than ignorance, and ignorance can be cured through experience.

Racism is a grown-up disease, and we should stop using our kids to spread 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.

This business of demonizing or pre-defining people by the way they look, the religion that they practice, or where they came from is not only un-American but it's going to hurt America.

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance.

Hateful, racist and ignorant remarks. When I hear people criticize without knowing the context, it makes me boil inside.

I did get in a few fights in school. Kids threw around anti-Semitic slurs, not knowing necessarily what they meant. It was probably just something they picked up somewhere, as kids do.

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

I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans.

Sometimes the British press is maybe a little bit racist.