Rio Ferdinand Quotes

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.

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.

Do not give voice to bigotry.

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

In commendably seeking to protect freedom of speech, we must not lower our defences against the evil of racial and religious intolerance.

I don't like bigotry and intolerance, but they do exist and I don't think you're going to get them out by passing laws.

Banning hate speech doesn't end racism or antisemitism. Social pressure does that. It becomes socially unacceptable.

I don't have a racist bone in my body.

Sarri is a racist, and men like him should be drummed out of football.

I do not want to have anything to do with anybody who is racist or bigoted or anti-Semitic.

I have said many times that racist and bigots are not welcome in our party... The journalists who don't want to recognize this and keep coming back with questions of bigotry can just take a hike.

Playing for England in Spain was really hard but racism is still in the game, which it shouldn't be. I think when you're playing the best thing to do is block it out like you do with everything else.

In criticizing an ideology, one cannot be racist, hateful, or bigoted. These descriptors apply to positions held against people and not ideologies.

I think it's important to condemn that. There's a line, and if you have a racial - racist comment, no, somebody has to act upon it.

We must never remain silent in the face of bigotry. We must condemn those who seek to divide us. In all quarters and at all times, we must teach tolerance and denounce racism, anti-Semitism and all ethnic or religious bigotry wherever they exist as unacceptable evils. We have no place for haters in America -- none, whatsoever.

We can't allow racism and xenophobia to gain traction.

We have a lot more work to do in our common struggle against bigotry and discrimination. I say "common struggle" because I believe very strongly that all forms of bigotry and discrimination are equally wrong and should be opposed by right-thinking Americans everywhere. Freedom from discrimination based on sexual orientation is surely a fundamental human right in any great democracy, as much as freedom from racial, religious, gender, or ethnic discrimination.

I was raised with this idea that we're supposed to be tolerant of other people's opinions, but then what happens if other people's opinions are racist and hateful and wrong?

If it's racist, it's racist. If it's anti-Semitic, it's anti-Semitic. If it's anti-women, it's anti-women. If it's anti-immigrant, it's anti-immigrant, and we need to really strengthen our language, so that it is clear and not mushy.

I am not a racist in any form whatsoever. I don't believe in any form of discrimination or segregation.

I try to attack all races and creeds, except the Irish. Clearly they are closest to the angels and don't deserve abuse. But the others have it coming.

Spain is not a racist country.

As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God's word to justify bigotry and persecution.

Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.

I'm not any kind of a bigot, I'm not.