Quotes About Prejudice

India is one of those few countries in the world where violence against women starts in the womb, before the girl is even born.

People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.

Sexism isn't a one-size-fits-all phenomenon. It doesn't happen to black and white women the same way.

Women belong in the bedroom and the kitchen, in that order.

They say women and music should never be dated.

Light-skinned women, we can break them down more easy.

In accordance to the way that Benn speaks, he is not educated. Sure, he's educated to a certain extent, but under different circumstances he would be a bouncer on some door in the West End and he'd have three kids from three different women... I am a superior person to that. I have finer points.

I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.

When men call women ambitious they mean pushy.

I'm really interested in older women, to be honest, because they have lived a life that I've not yet lived. So I really want to learn from them, and I think culturally we tend to dispose of women once they get to a certain age and they don't look a certain way.

Older men get lovable, and older women get monstrous.

In popular culture, there is this notion that African-American men and women can't get together, and we're having these issues. I think it's an American problem because I know a lot of white women and men who are having just as many issues trying to find 'that person' as anyone.

I am absolutely not a feminist, I am against stupidity, and if it comes from males or females, it doesn't change anything. If it means that women and men, they are equal, then OK, certainly I am a feminist.

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

My complexion, we too gutter: light-skinned women are more sensitive.

Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.

All my life, I faced sexism and racism and then, when I hit 40, ageism.

People are much deeper than stereotypes. That's the first place our minds go. Then you get to know them and you hear their stories, and you say, 'I'd have never guessed.'

I believe we need to lay race theories to rest: Democracy - and identity - is difficult enough without 'scientific' obfuscation.

There is a lot of learned material written about nationalism - scholarly books and papers, histories of it, theories of it - but most of us understand that nationalism, at its heart, at its very deepest roots, is about a feeling of superiority: We are better than you. Our country is better than your country.

I believe that nothing should be taboo - no theory or prejudice should close one's mind to a discovery.

I've never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn't feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you've got to work as hard as them.

In the late 19th century, the theory that the Aborigines were an inferior race that was doomed to die out became accepted as fact.

I may have had a prejudice against agnosticism as a body of thought: sort of a fence-sitting theory, where you can't make up your mind one way or another.