Dianne Feinstein Quotes

The world is still very bigoted.

Intolerance has been the curse of our country.

I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.

I grieve, however, that anyone could be stupid enough, in any part of our country, to arrest the Vice-Presidential candidate of a recognized party because, on his way to speak to citizens of the United States, he tried to go through a door which was marked as the entrance for people of color. It seems to me completely incredible that, in a State where colored people are allowed to enlist and go to war and be killed for their country, there should exist anything so senseless as a rule which forces human beings to enter through separate doors according to their color. It is fundamentally un-Christian and wrong.

Racism is endemic to the human condition, just as stupidity is. We will always have to be on guard against it. But now it is recognized as a scourge, as the crowning immorality of our age and our history.

People would write me hate letters. How dare I try to represent Hispanics when I was so white? I tried to make them see it was racism.

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

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

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

I didn't run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly different from the kind of horrendous oppression that black people in Miami were under when I moved there at 15. I found Florida an antihuman place.

In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest.

I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.

One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.

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

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

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

Three Whom God Should Not Have Created: Persians, Jews, and Flies

Get those goddamned niggers! And get those goddamned white niggers.

Even here in Boston, we are informed, pride and prejudice have got to such a pitch, that in the very houses erected to the Lord they have built little places for the reception of colored people, where they must sit during meeting, or keep away from the house of God. Hypocrisy could hardly go further than that of preachers who could not see the evils at their door but could send out missionaries to convert the heathen, notwithstanding.

… the imbecile and indolent Mexican race

Racism and sexism, misogyny and homophobia, they're so visible. They're out in the open. When they're visible, it's a lot easier to deal with them.

Yes, there is racism. There is discrimination. Mr. Trump may have the most powerful job in the world, but that does not make him a respectful person.

Racism is the greatest cancer of my lifetime.

Often in red states you find racism, and where you find racism, you also find sexism.

'Those people' is a bad word.