John F. Kelly Quotes

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.

Discrimination is not a national defense strategy!

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.

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

The arguments given by my predecessors in support of the ban on same sex marriage are the same arguments that were given to ban interracial marriage.

Religious liberty was never intended to give one religion dominion over other religions, or a veto power over the civil rights and civil liberties of others. However, today, as in the past, religion is being used as both a weapon and a shield by those seeking to deny others equality. In our nation’s past religion has been used to justify slavery and later, Jim Crow laws. We now see “religious liberty” arguments sneaking their way back into our political and constitutional discourse (just like the concept of “state rights”) in an effort to undermine the rights of some Americans.

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

We must stand together united in solidarity against the targeting, demonization, and vilification of any group of people.

Discrimination will impair democracy.

Racism seduces us with its desire to categorize, shutting out the living and breathing and 'different' world all around us.

Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.

Discrimination is alive and soaring.

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

No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.

I believe that what is legislated bleeds down into everything. So if the legislation continues to uphold anything that doesn't support equal rights and civil rights, that bleeds down into Matthew Shepard being murdered.

This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the rights of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America.

We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice.

When you discriminate against anyone, you discriminate against everyone. It's a display of terrible intolerance.

There are those who say to you we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years too late.

If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander.

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.

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

The state may not unfairly discriminate directly or indirectly against anyone on one or more grounds, including race, gender, sex, pregnancy, marital status, ethnic or social origin, colour, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, conscience, belief, culture, language and birth

We consider anti-Semitism as a crime against humanity. At the same time we must consider Islamaphobia as a crime against humanity.

It is no longer permitted them to put themselves, with respect to their houses, on an equal footing with the dwellings of their Muslim neighbors, and still less to build their buildings higher. If they are of the same height, or higher, it is incumbent upon us to pull them down to a size a little less than the houses of the true believers. This conforms to the word of the Prophet: 'Islam rules, and nothing shall raise itself above it.' This is also in order to hinder them from knowing where our weak spots are and in order to make a distinction between their dwellings and ours