Quotes About Prejudice

In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.

The criminal justice system in the United States is designed to do two things really well: to railroad black and brown bodies into prison, and to keep police officers out of it.

To fully understand the roots of anti-Asian prejudice in America, you need to know about the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 that banned all immigration from China, even though it was Chinese immigrants that had essentially built America's railroad system.

I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.

This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.

I think there are no good people at a white supremacist rally, and apparently that's just a real controversial take.

The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.

When I first ran for Congress in the 1990s, my background as an openly gay Asian was one of the focal points of the campaign, and, in fact, my opponent attacked me for it.

My vehemence was against the federal courts. I never said a word against black people in my heart since I ran for governor.

Without mentioning any names, there was a film that was being done, and I ran into the producer on the plane. It was a book that I really, really loved, and I said, 'I'd love to be a part of this.' And they made it clear that that was not going to be possible - for no particular reason other than that there was just no part for a black person.

When I pull my white Range Rover into disabled parking bays, the abuse that I get until I actually get out on my crutches is phenomenal, because people presume that you couldn't possibly be disabled and reverse a white Range Rover into that parking space.

It's such a lie that women go for funny men.

I feel that too much fuss is made about being gay.

I think we shall have ceased to be a racially divided society only when we stop making a fuss about colour.

It shouldn't be that people think the National Gallery is just for middle-class white people.

There are people who are very dismissive of games and gamers.

There are people there who live, work, and have lives. Not everybody who lives in Detroit is a gangsta.

I couldn't get roles as bad guys. They could see John Travolta as a gangster but not me, really. But, you know, that's just how things are.

It's better to be a dictator than gay.

I was born gay, just as I was born black.

Everyone always says, 'When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't.

The gay male is always going to be at the bottom.

I think, as a gay man in society, we are not accepted yet... let alone a gay man with a kid.

If people are going to complain about stereotyping, it's as likely to be Italian-Americans as gay people.