Jose Serrano famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

People must realize that a crime motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice against one group is a crime against all of us.
-- Jose Serrano

#People #Groups #Prejudice
Under the leadership of this President, the state of the union is not strong. We are being pulled apart rather than pulling together. Our democracy is suffering from the choices being made, and yet we are offered the same tired excuses and unrealistic analyses.
-- Jose Serrano

#Leadership #Strong #Tired
Any religious organization should be allowed to hire based on their religious preference- but not with federal dollars.
-- Jose Serrano

#Religious #Organization #Dollars
I know that New York City remains the highest density urban area in the country and by far dedicates more of its own funds to fighting terrorism than any other municipality.
-- Jose Serrano

#Country #New York #Fighting
The people who have recently come to this country to work and better their lives should be given the same opportunities that our parents, grandparents, and ancestors were given.
-- Jose Serrano

#Country #Pregnancy #Opportunity
The value of tolerance is central to living in today's world - especially in diverse places like the Bronx.
-- Jose Serrano

#Tolerance #World #Today
As the 109th Congress continues to debate legislation that will affect the lives of immigrants, it is important for us to remember that we are a nation of immigrants.
-- Jose Serrano

#Important #Remember #Debate
Our nation's anti-hunger programs need to be strengthened.
-- Jose Serrano

#Needs #Hunger #Program
Salaries haven't kept up with inflation, and there is such anger coming out of Washington about immigrants that I think it has curtailed the ability of local folks here to hire immigrants, .. I really believe it starts from the top, and the policy continues to be one of ignoring people at the bottom, cutting taxes for those on the top and spending a lot of money for a war built on lies.
-- Jose Serrano

#War #Lying #Anger

God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.
American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more committed themselves to a particular group or country than a nineteenth-century missionary committed himself to the African tribe in which he happened to find himself.
I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.
I now find myself looking at every sentence, every image, that purports to tell the West about the Arabs and the Muslims with this question in mind: to what extent does it feed into existing stereotypes and established prejudice?
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.
The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.
Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.
The emancipation of women from intemperance, injustice, prejudice, and bigotry. see Edgar Y. Harburg, We Gotta be Free
willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.

Jose Serrano famous quotes

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