Fulke Greville Quotes

Whenever you're specific with ethnicity or religion, people find reason to take offence.

Racism is about education. Racism is ignorance.

Stereotyping of any race or culture is narrow-minded, and I can't wait to help break the shackles.

I was born in Iran, which has a predominantly Muslim population, and I have relatives who are devout Muslims, so I know what it means to be judged based on your appearance and what you're wearing. But your ethnicity and your clothing do not define who you are.

If a foreign country doesn't look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviously the natives must be dangerous as well as badly dressed.

I think stupid people are surprised that I'm Australian. It's a small-minded; we live in a global community, but I suppose some people still are small-minded.

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.

I am certainly not racist; I even like the British.

To purposely concoct older characters of a sunny disposition would be as much of a solecism as deliberately fabricating arrhythmic blacks, spendthrift Jews, slacker Japanese and so on.

Prejudice is an opinion without judgement.

There was a time when politicians could appeal to prejudice and intolerance by baiting the opposition with red-meat code words. Not now. In this new millennium, the world is smaller, as different cultures, traditions, and religious beliefs are merged together.

Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one’s home. I do not like after- shave lotion, adults who roller-skate, children who speak French, or anyone who is unduly tan. I do not, however, go around enacting legislation …

… avoid the use of language which may discriminate on grounds of race, ethnicity, gender, age or culture.

Color prejudice and religion are akin in one respect. Some folks have it and some don't, and the kernel that is responsible for it is present in us all.

In South Africa, they think we're pygmies!

I navigate different cultures daily, and I understand how people can make false assumptions because of their lack of interaction with the cultures I find myself in. But if they don't frequent these spaces much, how can they rush to judgment?

There is no racism in Italy.

I am a singer. You love me or hate me based on my music. If you are judging me based on my nationality and religion, you are a racist. This is very offensive. I cannot encourage that.

Objecting to someone because of his religious beliefs is not the same thing as prejudice based on religious heritage, race, or gender.

People with accents exist and just because they have an accent doesn't mean they're less intelligent or what-have-you.

We don't properly discriminate. We never discriminate properly when we're dealing with another group and one of the big problems about religion is that religious people don't know that they are probably as flagrant in these misjudgments as irreligious people.

I'm sure this Jesus will not do Either for Englishman or Jew.

Never bend over for a Christian.

Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.

I'm not talking about the people. I have nothing against the people. I have nothing against the Indonesian people or the Arab people or the Muslim people. I'm talking about the ideology.