Quotes About Prejudice

If you tap people's racial anxieties, you're not going to get them to be able to hear any of your facts.

Any deviation is looked upon as a perversion, is feared, and is usually a target of hatred and prejudice.

Latino kids are not rejected by their parents for being Latino, nor are most Muslims disowned by their parents for being Muslims, but those who are gay are often the target of their families' disapprobation or outright hostility.

Once you're a felon you're a target.

I'm black. I'm gay. I'm culturally Christian. I am a walking target on so many levels, and it is horrifying and a cross that very, very many of us who look like me have to bear.

Muslims remain the most convenient target for prejudice in a city like Delhi, which is far more ghettoized than Bombay or Bangalore, for example.

Where you are born, your parent's beliefs, or your ethnic background should not make you a target.

Isn't it wrong to target and brand an entire state in a poor light?

Once you start crossing over and displaying feminine ways, you're a target. It's sad, it's humiliating, and it's confusing.

Most of the attacks, most of the online hate that I've received has really been targeted at my Jewish identity.

The truth is that Asian people have been targeted and discriminated against for far, far longer than COVID has been around.

When will we regard human beings as human beings? Why do we discuss someone's appearance? And when we can't find faults in appearances, we start targeting their personalities. Why do we consider others beneath us?

If stop-and-frisk was a fair and balanced practice that targeted everybody equally across the board, then I could understand the extra precautions being taken, but since it's a practice that targets blacks and Hispanics and gives the police the right to lawfully profile us, I'm not with it.

Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another.

We are saying that when our nation targets law enforcement efforts at someone's appearance or what neighborhood they live in or what job they do, it is not living up to our nation's basic ideals.

Can you imagine - a blond Tarzan?

My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.'

I find that Americans completely lack sensibility and good taste. They are boring, and they all have faces like unbaked rolls.

On some subconscious level, I've been prejudiced against turnips, parsnips, swedes and other roots. Do they taste of much? Are they really special? How wrong I was.

Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.

I reluctantly soldiered on to the raccoon. It actually would have tasted quite good had I not had the image of a raccoon rummaging through the garbage stuck in my head.

I don't like people who smoke and have tattoos.

I noticed that I got a better space in the line in Starbucks when I had my tattoo. People associate tattoos with a certain edge. Then I open my mouth, and something completely different comes out.

I think, between the tattoos, the way I dress, the way I talk, people don't think it should go together with a franchise quarterback or someone that's leading the team or representing the organization.