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"Is the drive to refuse gay blood a fear of contracting HIV/AIDS, or is it an embodiment of the irrational fear that receiving blood from gay people will somehow make them gay?"
"I don't know any homophobic people. That suggests fear.The people I know who hate gay folks are:illiterate, nescient, uneducated, uninstructed, unlearned, unschooled, untaught, backward, benighted, primitive, unenlightened, blockheaded, dense, doltish, hebetudinous, obtuse, stupid, thickheaded, thick-wittedBut not homophobic."
"There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice."
"Let me explain something when I'm talking about sin, and I'm talking about all sin. One of the biggest ones that has been talked about that has really become a debate in America is homosexuality."
"Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because they are Jews but because they are folks, and I don't like folks."
"Homophobia is the ignorant and arrogant assumption that copulation and reproduction is all there is to a relationship."
"While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the centuries. I do not believe the dented wisdom my father used to extol, that homosexuality was a sure sign of a civilization in decline."
Explore more quotes by Edward James Olmos
"There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is."
"You know, Hillary Clinton gives of herself. Princess Diana gave of herself. But they are not saints."
"Yeah, the New York Times is very intellectual and very, very prestigious, but it doesn't reach the market that People magazine does."
"Education is the key. But it's the kind of education that we teach that is the key. We don't have it."
"I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them."
"And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice."
"A saint is a person who gives of themself without asking for anything in return. That's how simple it is to be a saint. Try it! Try being a saint."
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