Quotes About Prejudice

I think in industries riddled with bias, you tend to hire women only if their previous work is very masculine, which is hilarious given that this is not how male directors are chosen.

People think just because I'm from the Middle East, I'm an expert on the Middle East. So, like, I got a friend, like, any time the gas prices go up, he'll always ask my opinion about it.

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

What motivated me as much as anything was to show the racists that a black man could bring pride and honour to Britain.

Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to.

I went to Catholic school and experienced racism firsthand from nuns and priests.

Racism is not primal or instinctive.

People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans.

'I Am Singh' is primarily about mistaken identities that led to racism post the 9/11 attacks.

I have spent my whole life earnestly believing the fundamental American dictum that a single 'drop of black blood' makes a person 'black' primarily because they can never be 'white.'

Generalizing a type of people is really primitive.

As a person of color, I feel like I'm socialized to feel like a remnant of poverty or something primitive, and I don't feel like that at all. I can be myself and be me.

I had a great deal of confidence when I graduated from Berkeley. I had almost none when I was at Princeton. After a while, when people tell you you can't do something because you're a woman, you begin to believe maybe they're right.

Merely implying bias due to a judge's ethnic heritage is wrong as a matter of principle and legally illegitimate.

Hitting someone with a shoe is in principle anti-Dalit. If you investigate stories about hitting someone with a shoe, you will find that this sort of language was used only by those who were upper-caste.

Don't assume that all fat people are gluttons. And don't use the word 'fat.' There is a principle here. Learn from logic and experience not to associate things - especially in preaching - that don't necessarily go together.

Even if the KKK isn't the outsized presence it once was in this country, many of its principles and ideas are alive and well.

Every single interview I have ever done on TV or in print says I'm a Muslim.

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.

Prior to the 'Chappelle's Show,' you know, no one would even listen to me, in the frame of, 'Oh, he is trying to be funny.'

Prior to 2001, hardly any company in North America or Europe would buy from India.

I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.

We have to change public perception of ex-convicts. Most Canadians don't realize that when you come out of prison, you're a complete pariah. You can't get a car loan or money from a bank to start a business. So most end up back in prison within 24 months. It's just so wrong. We need to fix this problem.

Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.