Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Quotes

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.

An evil remains an evil whether practiced by white against black or black against white.

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

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

Sometimes, unfortunately, hatred is more powerful than progress.

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

What does homophobia look like when it's stripped bare of fancy costumes like family values and tradition? It looks like that group of strange, angry people who protest at the funerals of U.S. soldiers who've died fighting for our country.

Discrimination is a disease.

I won't ever got to a place that's racist, and I will tell everybody else not to and I'll speak against them. But it should be their right to be racist.

Hatred, intolerance, poor hygienic conditions and violence all have roots in illiteracy, so we're trying to do something to help the poor and the needy.

I believe in the power of media. I really do. It's my soapbox. And I do have an agenda, because I'm enraged by the limitations forced on people - by poverty, oppression, hatred, fear - and I'm saddened by the kind of loss we all experienced due to the contributions that people cannot make because of their circumstances.

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.

Bigotry has always been the poison of America, and we oughta do everything to eradicate it with no excuses or explanations.

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.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

Bigotry should never be sanctioned, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.

Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.

Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

Well, fear and homophobia are both pervasive.

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

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

Sectarianism, bigotry, and it's horrible descendant, fanaticism, have long possessed this beautiful Earth. They have filled the earth with violence, drenched it often and often with human blood, destroyed civilization, and sent whole nations to despair. Had it not been for these horrible demons, human society would be far more advanced than it is now.