Kinky Friedman Quotes

I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white.

No single race has a monopoly on racism.

I don't condone racism. I don't condone prejudice.

I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.

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.

Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're going through. Ultimately it wont exist.

Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.

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

It's hard to say when or if we will actually arrive at that place called 'post-racial', or, better yet, post-racism.

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

Racism is a part of human nature, and you're not going to eradicate it; all you can do is try to keep it in check.

If you truly believe in the brotherhood of man, then you must believe that blacks are just as capable of being racists as whites are.

I would like to get rid of the homophobes, sexists, and racists in our audience. I know they're out there and it really bothers me.

Protesting the color of a man's skin is not a worthy protest.

Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.

It's pretty awful being told you're a racist.

There's a lot of racism still alive and still active.

You know, bigotry isn't relevant to just the South. It never was. But I'm very grateful that I don't know what it's like from experience.

Racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, anything Nazi and a boatload of other things have no place in my life.

Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.

Growing up in Michigan, I can't think of anything so explicitly communicated to me in my whole education experience as the vileness of in-your-face racism.

Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

Racism and discrimination of any kind have no place in football.

For as long as the power of America's diversity is diminished by acts of discrimination and violence against people just because they are black, Hispanic, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or gay, we still must overcome.

And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind.