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Quotes About Prejudice

I have a half-brother who is very, very, very gay, many cousins, best friends who are all members of the LGBT community, and for me to not say anything would be hypocritical. There is a lot of prejudice. People think it is abnormal. No, it's just another normal.
~ Lea Salonga
If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
~ Salman Rushdie
It is not that we have class prejudice, but only that we find comfort and ease in our own class. And normally there are plenty of people of our own class, or race, or religion to play, live, and eat with, and to marry.
~ Gordon W. Allport
To single out a particular group and say we can't make a joke about them is almost a form of prejudice and it's kind of patronizing.
~ Sacha Baron Cohen
I deplore any action which denies artistic talent an opportunity to express itself because of prejudice against race origin.
~ Bess Truman
Prejudice is a form of untruthfulness, and untruthfulness is an insidious form of injustice.
~ Miroslav Volf
Dwarves are still the butt of jokes. It's one of the last bastions of acceptable prejudice.
~ Peter Dinklage
I need wrong to get laughs. I need a normal world so that I can be abnormal, and that's my problem. Comedians need prejudice.
~ Gallagher
There was a lot of prejudice towards Russians in Latvia. When I went to school, often Latvians didn't like me, and Russians and Latvians didn't like Americans, so that was a whole other prejudice.
~ Lana
Categorizing people economically and hating them because you think they're this way is a prejudice.
~ Whit Stillman
Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.
~ Elihu Root
First of all, the actor needs to get out of the character's way. You follow the character without judgment or prejudice or preconceived ideas.
~ Amy Ryan
I had not got over the prejudice against Lincoln with which my personal contact with him in 1858 imbued me.
~ Henry Villard
The fundamental thing that makes the 'X-Men' different from every other series out there is it's all about prejudice. It's about a group of young people trying to make a place in a society that doesn't want them.
~ Chris Claremont
Sadly, I've learnt that prejudice still exists in parts of the entertainment industry - I did an interview with a magazine once, and the journalist quite openly said they wouldn't put a black person on the front cover because the magazine wouldn't sell.
~ Alesha Dixon
There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
~ William Hazlitt
The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.
~ Bram Fischer
A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives.
~ Robert Emmet
There's prejudice everywhere. I don't think the music industry is as bad as the movie industry. But I have taken a few hits over the years for my sexuality, and for being honest about my life. In the end, it's the music that rules the roost.
~ Rufus Wainwright
I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.
~ Caitlin Moran
I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing.
~ Richard Thompson
The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.
~ Nat King Cole
Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.
~ Dalia Mogahed
I came from a lot of intolerance and prejudice, which aren't necessarily healthy to evolve as a human.
~ Katy Perry