Quotes About Prejudice

I'm a big rock star, I got a beautiful girl, and they still call me a fag. Its' like high school never ends - the jocks are always on top.

When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.

We don't even realize how loaded of a topic money is. We've got really serious judgments on it.

IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.

People expect someone with the name 'Israel Horovitz' to be a little old man with sideburns carrying a Torah.

Most Asians I know still don't trust the Tories on race - and they have good reason not to.

We are teaching white children to hate themselves. We are teaching nonwhite children that it's OK to bully and torment white children because of the color of their skin.

When I was selected as a Labour council candidate in 2009, people publicly challenged how I could possibly represent anyone from the Bengali community because of my faith and since my selection and election as the member of parliament for Liverpool, Wavertree, I have received a torrent of anti-Semitic abuse.

Racism is one of the worst forms of torture because it's directed at something you never asked for and something you can't change.

I heard one woman say to another in the queue at a book signing: 'I shouldn't be buying this. He's a former Tory MP, you know.'

People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.

I like seeing those 300-pound women that toss those discus. I just feel like they're so scary. It freaks me out a little bit to know that there are women like that.

If you put the collections together, whether it's Rick Owens, Alexander Wang, or whomever, sometimes they do streetwear, but they're never called that. They're always called 'sportswear' or 'high-end' or 'luxury.' I feel like I'm tossed into that streetwear category so that I don't exist in this space.

To exercise ignorance, racist prejudice, a love of power and total disregard for factual accuracy, one has to inhabit a world where everything can mean anything and nothing is certain.

America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they're doing in Yugoslavia.

The fact that I have such a problem that people... that that has to, you know, be on people's mind, what my personal background is. To me, to be very frank with you, is a totally irrelevant thing.

we've been indoctrinated to believe that the higher the IQ, the more likely one is to succeed in life.

You only had to look like you done something wrong in America and they would hang you, if you were poor.

It wasn't a crime to beat an Indian, not at all.

Else what was happening was, I was going to be beaten up every time I was in town. It was English kept me from that. Some straggly farmhand might look at you and see the dark skin and the black hair and think that gave him a right to knock you down and kick you. No one saying boo to him for that. No sheriff or deputy neither.

De hecho a la gente le encantaba opinar sobre la «cuestión judía» basándose en porcentajes.

Saint Marx, in whom one had always believed, had not helped. Saint Hitler was obviously more powerful. So let's destroy the images of Saint Marx on the altars and replace them with images of Saint Hitler. Let us learn to pray: "It is the Jews' fault" rather than "It is the capitalists' fault." Perhaps that will redeem us.

I played teen roles until high definition came out, and I could never understand it. I would go in for adult roles and be older than many of the people auditioning, but they'd cast the girl without a line on her face.

El prejuicio con la velocidad es más fuerte que con la lentitud; nadie parece haberse puesto a pensar que aquel a quien las cosas le llevan mucho tiempo puede estar, más que dedicándose concienzudamente al asunto, en alguna clase de dificultad.