Quotes About Prejudice

Everyone who comes to the entertainment industry wants to be a film actor. Who wants to be a television actor by choice? I want to change the perception of Indian television as being the poor man's medium.

I have learned already that you have to work against people's perception as they want to box you in very quickly.

My perception has changed from thinking if someone's in jail they're supposed to be, to there's a lot of factors that's not that simple.

People anyway didn't take me seriously because of the way I look. And for some reason, there's this Indian perception that sportspersons should look wanting, they should look like they've put up a real struggle.

People have ignored me in the past, thinking that I probably had an attitude. And I couldn't break that perception.

Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like.

We all have perceptions or boxes that we put each other in.

I don't believe man is a woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.

Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.

We demonize our enemies at our own peril.

It was extremely dangerous to be a black man in the KKK. If I'd been exposed, it could have all gone horribly wrong. The Klansmen were armed, and there was always a peril.

I don't think any gay dude is gangsta, period.

The main cause is a pernicious falsehood propagated against her being, namely that she is inferior by her nature. Inferior in what? What has man ever done that woman, under the same advantages could not do?

God knows what the Yanks will make of 'Kevin and Perry.' It's totally gross to them because we don't look like we're off 'Dawson's Creek' or whatever. They'll think we're really weird.

It was rare to see an Asian man and white woman together when my parents fell in love. They went through years of persecution and harassment.

If we pass now from physical nature to the moral world, we still find ourselves subject to the same deceptions of appearance, to the same influences of spontaneity and habit. But the distinguishing feature of this second division of our knowledge is, on the one hand, the good or the evil which we derive from our opinions; and, on the other, the obstinacy with which we defend the prejudice which is tormenting and killing us.

Muslims have a very bad attitude to homosexuality, they're very intolerant.

Kesalahan orang-orang pandai ialah menganggap yang lain bodoh, dan kesalahan orang-orang bodoh ialah menganggap orang-orang lain pandai

Menyedihkan sekiranya di antara parasiswa sebagai terpelajar puncak Pribumi, merasa tak ada sesuatu yang patut dibela pada Pribumi sebangsa sendiri.

Ada diajarkan oleh kaum brahmana: orang kaya terkesan pongah di mata si miskin, orang bijaksana terkesan angkuh di mata si dungu, orang gagah-berani terkesan dewa di mata si pengecut, juga sebaliknya Kakanda, orang miskin tak berkesan apa-apa pada si kaya, orang dungu terkesan mengibakan pada si bijaksana, orang pengecut terkesan hina pada si gagah-berani. Tetapi semua kesan itu salah. Orang harus mengenal mereka lebih dahulu.

Unreasoning prejudices are bred out of the continual living in the past

When political and business leaders tell the public - any public - 'We don't trust you to make the right decision' - they prejudice that electorate against the very proposals they want it to accept and undermine public confidence in themselves.

He who listens to the advice of a woman is a fool.