Quotes About Prejudice

Racism is a cancer. You cannot ignore it and it'll go away. If you ignore cancer, it simply metastasizes and consumes the whole body.

When a black person kills a black person, the media ignores it completely.

When I was born, the wisdom was that homosexuality was an illness; that it was caused largely by somebody's mother, and a distorted relationship with the mother. And now, as I live my life - married to a husband, with kids - it's an identity.

This illusion that a lower class has less intelligence than a higher class is a complete fake-out.

To effectively create the image of an enemy you have to show first of all that the enemy is extremely dangerous, but on the other hand less than human.

I wanted to play a domestic help all my life... Because I wanted to break my image.

I don't have a problem with my image; it's other people who do.

Everyone has images in their mind of what to expect from different groups.

Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let's not imagine that racism is gone, extinguished, because it's not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena, and we are seeing it very, very plainly.

Most of us, when imagining an All-American, wouldn't picture a man who looked like me. Not even I would.

Only if you were lucky to be born in the right class, the one Donald Trump was born in, then of course you have a beautiful view of the world. You find that everybody else is an imbecile, because he doesn't think like you, he doesn't dress like you, he doesn't have the same girl as you, etc. But I call that ignorance.

Anti-Semites are imbeciles and delinquents.

Bigotry and demonisation of difference are usually the hallmark of immature and childish minds.

If I hear that people are litigious, I immediately dismiss them.

There's still an immense amount of discrimination that happens against trans people.

In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.

The people who hate immigrants are people who have never met them!

Throughout history, groups of Americans have attacked immigrants who fled danger and destruction at home and arrived in America hoping for the opportunities those of us born here are lucky enough to enjoy.

People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.

Black people do not have AIDS because AIDS is a 'black disease'; black people are getting AIDS because most of them are immoral.

It took a long time for me to have any impact in the business because I didn't look like an actor, I didn't sound like an actor.

Racism is very characteristic of imperialism. Racism is very characteristic of capitalism.

There are racial and gender implications to how we think about what leadership looks like in the country.

I want people to see my color and my culture written all over me, because I am proud of the skin I'm in. It is an important part of my identity. What I don't want them to do is mistreat me because of it.