Quotes About Prejudice

I was one of the good-looking, educated actors, and that is like a disadvantage in theatre!

The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.

It's only people that aren't goths that think the Cure are a goth band.

Attacking the ability of black people to govern through specious claims that we are a danger to white people is nothing short of disgraceful.

When I was in seventh grade, I was bored out of my mind. We seemed to be learning the same things over and over in science and math, and two of the boys in my class were allowed to move ahead into these advanced classes, but I wasn't allowed because I was a girl.

There are not grades of racism. There's racism.

I remember my grandfather believed women were second-class citizens and told my mother that it was a shame she had brains because she was a girl and shouldn't carry on her education.

Countless black citizens in the South couldn't vote. They were second-class citizens from cradle to grave. The discrimination was terrible, brutal.

We humans gravitate to people who share our culture because it's easier... the problem is that self-segregation is not just bad, it is dangerous.

There has always been a great deal of racism in the U.S. before and after Obama.

There's still a great deal of bias about homosexuality.

My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.

I have blonde hair and blue eyes, and whenever I tell people I'm Greek, they don't believe me.

We Greeks are the blacks of Europe.

There's a lot of rednecks in the country where I grew up.

White racial grievance enjoys automatic credibility, and even when disproven, it is never disqualifying of its bearers.

There are girls who find the giant beard 'gross' and 'creepy.' I know because they tell me.

On Thanksgiving Night, 1942, when I was fifteen years old, white racists burned our house to the ground.

Grammar schools are about stigmatising children, not on the grounds of their ability, but on their background.

In America, aren't we all supposed to see beyond class, see beyond ethnicity? Are all these lines drawn to set us apart and lock us into groups?

I never thought to myself, I'm going to grow up and fall in love with a man or I'm going to fall in love with a woman because my mother is a lesbian.

Half the bands I guarantee wouldn't at this point want Nuno to open for them.

Most coaches are mostly small guards because they think guards have more knowledge.

Just by existing as men, we are automatically guilty of everything in some people's minds. And, on top of that, we've created a situation in the media where men are only allowed to talk about politics and sport.