Quotes About Prejudice

It's easy to demonize from a distance.

I don't like class distinction, and there is far too much of that in England.

When people didn't really know who I was, and I would get on stage, they would be distracted by what I looked like, so I would have to dumb myself down, in a way, for people to feel safe to laugh.

We tend to dismiss things we don't particularly like, or that we find disturbing, as aberrations.

We're all complaining about diversity in Hollywood, but we've got to address the colorism within the black community of Hollywood first.

For actors, we always feel like there shouldn't be any divide for anybody. The industry is the one that kind of creates the idea that if you're such-and-such an actor, you can't be on the big screen.

This nation is being divided into black and white, and the present system encourages this.

Politicians are dividing us based on caste lines.

There is a misconception that I've experienced in my life about people that live in the South. I got sent away to school in Connecticut in the late Eighties, and kids were honestly asking me, 'Do people there wear shoes?'

I feel like it's a bit of a misconception that all actors have to be expert martial artists if they're Asian.

The white explorers had been my heroes. The Aborigines, I thought they were real savages. That was what I'd been taught and that's what I believed.

'Cougar' has become so distasteful. I really hate that expression.

We have so much discrimination in this world - colour, race, creed, all of these things - and there is an issue here that the right of marriage in the civil law is not extended to same-sex couples.

I cut off my curls and got hair extensions because I felt they made me look more acceptable - more white. I just wasn't very comfortable being a mixed-race woman.

Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.

I'm still a woman of color in this business and there are times when you still have to walk through extra doors and have extra things to prove.

Trickle-down racism, trickle-down bigotry, trickle-down misogyny, all these things are extraordinarily dangerous to the heart and character of America.

Anti-Semitism is extremely common.

I lost most of my friends. Their parents had told them to stay away from me, because they said I was crazy, I was an extremist.

If I see a cop, it's not like, 'Oh, there's a cop who's gonna keep me safe.' It's more, 'There's a cop who might be having a bad day, so don't make eye contact.'

I can understand the individual who is driven by biases. I can sit with him across the table and can talk to him, deal with him. But bias in the man whom we put in the seat of power and who decides to play on it... That man will destroy the very fabric of the nation.

I had a funny last name, and I didn't look like everybody else, and I got faced with a lot of racism.

I am convinced the next major attack against the United States may well be conducted by people with Asian or African faces, not the ones that many Americans are alert to.

As I've been saying for decades, as long as racism exists in society, it will exist in all facets of society. Until we eradicate it from society, football will be like any other industry.