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Edward James Olmos

"We don't have as much prejudice as we did 40 years ago, but today it is more educated."

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"People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with. One does not banish this specter by invoking it. If I would not vote against someone on the grounds of 'race' or 'gender' alone, then by the exact same token I would not cast a vote in his or her favor for the identical reason. Yet see how this obvious question makes fairly intelligent people say the most alarmingly stupid things."

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"...but prejudices, like odorous bodies, have a double existence both solid and subtle - solid as the pyramids, subtle as the twentieth echo of an echo, or as the memory of hyacinths which once scented the darkness."

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"Fundamentalism not only fuels devastating acts of violence, but also all kinds of primitive prejudicial behaviors, such as Misogyny, Polygamy, Homophobia, and Islamophobia."

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Assegid Habtewold

"The diplomatic representatives of the United States of America to other nations are almost entirely Jews."

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"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."

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"Bigotry is the sacred disease."

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

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"One way or another we are all biased, but still we have the modern cortical capacity to choose whether or not to let the harmful biases dictate our behavior."

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"Man cannot be homophobic without having concerned himself with another's sex life."

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"Eventually, I won the right to attend school, but the prejudice was still there."

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Edward James Olmos
"I'm not prepared for holding office any more than I think Arnold is."

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Edward James Olmos
"You know, Hillary Clinton gives of herself. Princess Diana gave of herself. But they are not saints."

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Edward James Olmos
"I'm always pleased when people respond to the work."

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Edward James Olmos
"Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through."

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Edward James Olmos
"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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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."

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Edward James Olmos
"And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice."

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Edward James Olmos
"Education is a vacine for violence."

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Edward James Olmos
"I believe that Gandhi was correct. Non-violent civil disobedience is the only way to bring about change that allows people to enjoy the change and not get killed in the process."

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Edward James Olmos
"And, granted, for a long time, the European has been dominant in certain parts of this Western Hemisphere, but by the end of the 21st century, it's over."

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