Quotes About Prejudice

I hate prejudice of any kind, whether it be color or sexual preference.

Anti-Semitism has never gone away; it will always be there because it's a very convenient prejudice. The gene of it, the original DNA, is buried deep within our history. And even within some Jews as well.

Prejudice is not just a personal sentiment - it can be institutional too.

I think prejudice has gotten to a point where a lot of people hold biases in their mind and don't even realize that they're doing it, because it's deeply ingrained in the fabric of what it means to be an American.

I haven't experienced a lot of prejudice in my life, but I'm not naive to what goes on in the world.

The beauty industry is just like the fashion industry - prejudice is ingrained. But with new people coming in with fresh eyes and passion, I definitely am seeing progress.

I am living in this world, and if this world already has a certain prejudice of me and an idea of me, then it's really hard for me to go through it.

I might have been lucky to grow up in the 90s, but I think, actually, we started getting complacent about prejudice. We thought we had killed prejudice, and if you were still talking about it you were just going on too much.

I have no prejudice about which music is better. I listen to Vivaldi. I like Nick Cave. I love Travis Scott, James Blake, Lola Flores. Music can serve many functions. And so I listen to everything!

I found myself defending America a lot in England. They were always asking me racial questions. I'd say, 'You've got prejudice here, too. At least in America we're trying to deal with it.'

Body shaming comes from prejudice and it does not hold any importance in my life. All that matters is my hard work, my mission and my vision; now that shouldn't be short!

The fact is that a ghastly class prejudice defines our response to the Indian Diaspora.

I have no prejudice against the gays, but I wouldn't train with someone who's gay.

Making our communities safer for all Americans, combatting longstanding prejudices, and ending discrimination should be issues where we can find common ground.

My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish!

Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.

If we can tell a good story with characters audiences can care about, I'd like to think that prejudices can fall aside and people can just experience the story and these characters for the human beings that they are.

I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so.

In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.

You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live.

There are a lot of people who like to think they don't have prejudices and that they're open people, and yet, we all have that in ourselves, oftentimes against people of our own race or our own gender or whatever.

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.

Not that long ago - in my parents' lives, in fact - actors in minstrel shows wore blackface to mimic and mock African Americans. These performances were based in contempt and gave people an opportunity to act out their prejudices.

Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian.