James Carville Quotes

Discrimination will impair democracy.

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

To single out a particular group and say we can't make a joke about them is almost a form of prejudice and it's kind of patronizing.

Every type of discrimination whether social or cultural, whether based on sex, race, social condition, language or religion, is to be overcome and eradicated as contrary to God's intent.

We've come a long way, but there is still a lot of discrimination.

We see people of kindness, compassion, and possibly even faith being told, "Because of a characteristic with which you were born, you are evil and bad." Anything that even implies such a stance is profoundly toxic.

Language that is designed to dehumanize has consequences.

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.

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.

Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.

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.

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.

Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.

Any time I saw people treated unfairly because of race, creed, whatever - it struck a nerve.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

Segregation is evil; there is no pattern of life which can dehumanize men as can the way of segregation.

Discrimination is not a national defense strategy!

Racism must be fought - there are no two ways about it.

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.

It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.

'Those people' is a bad word.

Ageism is a variation of racism or sexism, all the other isms.

Laws on hate speech and hate crimes do important work in a world that has been rooted in racism and bigotry since the inception of this country, which was not founded on ideals of justice.

Labels, boxes, and politically correct terminology all seem small and irrelevant when being compared to the violent and brutal attacks on the lives of people who are different than what society says we should be.