Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes

I believe in, and will to the best of my ability fight for, equal rights and freedom of opinion for everyone, regardless of colour, religion, nationality, orientation - you know the rest.

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

I hate prejudice of any kind, whether it be color or sexual preference.

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

Sadly, we can't eliminate bigotry. But that doesn't mean we have to tolerate it, much less give it a platform on which to thrive.

We have tolerance, respect, and equality in our written laws but not in the hearts of some of our people.

Why shouldn't gay people be able to live as open and freely as everybody else? What it comes down to, ultimately, is love. How can anything bad come out of love? The bad stuff comes out of mistrust, misunderstanding and, God knows, from hate and from ignorance.

It's outrageous to me when I see people hate on someone because of their sexuality. I hate the intolerance. I hate the judgment. I hate it so much.

All my life I have fought against prejudice and intolerance.

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.

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

There is something uncannily adaptive about anti-Semitism: the way it can hide, unsuspected, in the most progressive minds.

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

Equal protection under the law - for race, religion, gender or sexual orientation - should not be subject to the most popular sentiments of the day.

If it wasn't for so many brave people standing up, speaking out, and fighting for equal rights, we might not have all of the luxuries of freedom that we have today. So many unsung people fought for us to be able to live together in harmony no matter how different we are from one another.

I always say that tolerance doesn't depend on a country, because there is hate everywhere.

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

Anti-Semitism or discrimination of any kind has no place in our society.

There is a difference between being offended and being prejudiced and even being bigoted against. There's a difference between that and racism.

We do not stand for racism on the pitch, in society or anywhere else it rears its ugly head.

Discrimination will impair democracy.

I don't know how racists live with their racism. We need to take the road of love. I don't think folks are born that way; it's learned and taught out of fear.

I always had my views on racial tolerance. I couldn't see why anyone would dislike or to the nth degree hate someone simply because they were a different color.

We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.

There are some groups that for years and years have not gotten the rights that the majority of human beings have, and I think that it's important to continue to draw these parallels so that when we think about our future we can change some of the lives of people who love differently than we do, look different than we do, who come from a different class. It's all about bringing awareness to how important it is to be accepting of people...and there will be oppression if one group thinks they're more important or superior.