Quotes About Prejudice

He couldn't understand at all why he had let himself risk his skin for a dead shriveled-up part-nigger dwarf that had never done anything but get himself embalmed and then lain stinking in a museum the rest of his life.

Sometimes Mrs. Turpin occupied herself at night naming the classes of people.

The girl had taken the Ph.D. in philosophy and this left Mrs. Hopewell at a complete loss. You could say, "My daughter is a nurse," or "My daughter is a school teacher," or even, "My daughter is a chemical engineer." You could not say, "My daughter is a philosopher." That was something that had ended with the Greeks and Romans

Will you for God's sake get off that subject?" Julian said. When he got on a bus by himself, he made it a point to sit down beside a Negro, in reparation as it were for his mother's sins.

Fancy expensive designer shops are out for me as I'm a size 18, sometimes 20, and I therefore do not count as a woman to them.

I've always felt that 'X-Men' was about something serious. It wasn't just fantasy.

I'm very afraid of being linked with the wrong, rightist, Fascist groups.

It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.

I've always turned down stuff where you had to be fat. I may be fat, but that's not why you play a role. If the guy has to be that way, I say get somebody else because I'm not doing any fat acting.

In my 20s, I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.

In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman.

If I have any sexist feelings they are aimed at men: I hate manly men.

You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on.

I don't think it's fair for people to put fellow beings down just because they're only known for their looks.

If anyone says they haven't experienced sexism then I don't know what life they've lived. Males and females have, for different reasons, and I don't think it's a media thing.

Every time I speak out about anything feminist I will be shot down by people calling me fat, calling me stupid. And it's all because I am speaking from a feminist perspective.

We get stereotyped as MMA fighters as being barbarian and trying to hurt people. A lot of us are college-educated, like myself.

I really don't like watching women fights.

When I was young, people were so disgusted by me. Before I even knew that I was gay... everybody else had it figured out and, you know, they were letting you know.

I kind of figured if I couldn't get a job as a dwarf, looking as I do, I should just give up acting.

Film was something I didn't really think about when I was young, because if you looked like me, you weren't a film star.

Al Campanis made people finally understand what goes on behind closed doors - that there is racism in baseball.

The Left loves to demonize the financially successful.

Doesn't matter what you say or do; people can always find a way to call you a dick.