Quotes About Prejudice

If you're someone who doesn't have Muslim friends, and your only experience of Islam is what you see on the news - the angry man with a beard doing or saying something terrible - then you may inadvertently associate that with Islam and think that is what it's all about.

When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.

One either has to believe in a God who's terribly prejudiced, or disbelieve the teachings of such exclusionary theologies. Religions have taught us that 'we are better than they.'

Father Ted' was written by Irish people, so that was fine, but around the time we were shooting it 'EastEnders' went to Ireland and represented it as this terribly backward society where people were going around with one eye and drunk.

I'm terrified of having a little girl. Girls are more evil than boys.

Everyone is so terrified of being labeled a racist.

I spent 19, 20 years of my life being terrified about what I looked like. I was a ginger white kid.

My dad looked like Errol Flynn, and I think my mom thought she was moving into a hacienda, but they lived on a dirt street in Tijuana, a house jammed with relatives, nobody speaking English. She didn't know a word of Spanish. She grew up well and was appalled and humiliated, terrified of anyone ethnic.

If the world's nations can set aside their petty bickering over religion, politics, and territory, certainly I can 'get that Olympic Spirit' and rise above my prejudices.

If there were a bunch of Buddhist or Hindus or Roman Catholics carrying out grotesque acts of international terror, I would expect to see their faces on the side of bus.

It's so much fun playing Ling, but I have this fear that people are going to run away from me in terror on the streets. They think I'm going to bite their heads off or something.

Does every Muslim commit terror? Of course not.

Since when can somebody tell me a time or a case where there has been a Syrian refugee in this country who has committed an act of terror?

In the West we are constantly hit with music of Middle Eastern descent signifying terror, intrigue or sorrow.

All we talk about is 'Islamic terrorism.' If the two words are associated for long enough it's obviously going to have an effect on how people think about Muslims.

We often speak of domestic terrorism and hate crimes in the same breath, and there is a fine line between the two, and certainly overlap in some cases.

The Charleston shooting is a result of an ingrained culture of racism and a history of terrorism in America. It should be covered as such.

When a man wrote a political screed against the IRS and flew into its building, he was deemed mentally ill, even though it was clearly a political act. There's a double standard, which is: If his name is Muhammad, it's automatically terrorism.

Cross-burning is a domestic act of terrorism. It's been classified as such.

We give parity to all terrorism regardless of ideology.

I always get stopped by security and immigration, telling me, 'Tell me who the terrorist is, or we won't stamp your passport!' The last time that somebody did that to me - at LAX, actually - I was like, 'Hey, don't ever ask a brown girl that in an American airport!'

To make 'depression' synonymous with 'dangerous' is as bad as saying 'Muslim' is synonymous with 'terrorist.'

If there is an exotic woman it's always a terrorist role.

I'm trying to get the terrorist out of the bugaboo category and into the category of a fellow human being.