Tyrus Quotes

In martial arts, for every attack, there is a counter you can throw. Somebody traps you, you can throw a hook. But there is no counter for bias.

Discrimination is a disease.

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

Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.

Injustice is either very blatant - you walk down the street and someone calls you a name; you don't get a job because of your gender or your skin color or your sexual preference - but injustice is also very subliminal.

Humans can be cruel - kids and adults alike. That doesn't mean they have to be forced to a specific stereotype.

Discrimination is a bad bad bad thing.

Discrimination is alive and soaring.

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 never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the 'n' word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren't pretty or they weren't rich or they weren't clever.

The world is still very bigoted.

Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

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

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.

They taught me different was wrong.

Prejudice is like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.

I think any stereotyping is too much.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

There will always be people treated badly, which I feel is basic human nature and difficult to eliminate.

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

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

That’s like blaming the witch for the witch hunt.

The trouble with discrimination is not discrimination per se, but rather that the people who are discriminated against think of themselves as second-class.

We've come a long way, but there is still a lot of discrimination.