Octavia Spencer Quotes

Racism is ridiculous no matter where it's coming from.

Racism springs from ignorance.

As an African-American, I know all too well the negative thoughts and feelings hatred and bigotry cause.

There's a little racism out here, always was, and always will be.

Liberals instinctively cling to racism or bigotry or hate or narrow-mindedness whenever they can.

Honestly, racism is something learned, not something that you just pick up one day and wish to dislike someone.

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

I think people are just going to be people, and racism is a thing. If people have an inclination to be racist then they are going to be, and there is not a whole lot that you can do about it.

Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.

Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list.

I sometimes feel that racism is getting worse.

Australia turns out to be a sensational place, albeit one of the most comfortably racist places I've ever been in. They've really settled into their intolerance like an old resentful slipper.

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 have always abhorred the word 'racism.' I never use it.

Only those who hate the Negro see hatred in the Negro.

I don't appreciate people who discriminate on the basis of colour.

No single race has a monopoly on racism.

Most of my experience with racism comes from living in the South.

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

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

Racism is wrong, racism is very dangerous.

I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida.

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

Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.

First of all, do I think there's some racists in the Tea Party? Yeah. I'm an ordained United Methodist pastor; there's some racists in the Methodist church. I don't know if there's a body that does not have some racists in it.