Quotes About Prejudice

You cannot write-off someone and consider them inferior in any way based on how much money they make.

Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority.

Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected.

It was incomprehensible to me that someone who had never seen me before, someone who knew absolutely nothing about me, would want to inflict pain upon me for no other reason than the color of my skin.

We have to deal with the way that race influences our criminal justice system.

The ingrained image of black men being searched by the police feeds into the collective illusion that black men everywhere need to be policed more than others.

Initially, I didn't want to watch 'The Dirty Picture.'

You can't segregate and humiliate people decade after decade without creating long-lasting injuries.

I've always said that the greatest racism in Hollywood has to do with what color ink you produce: Black or red.

I still meet old-school scientists who are like, 'Oh honey, women aren't good at science.' You kind of dismiss them as insane.

We like to think that because we have a black president that thinks are better and racism doesn't exist. That's insane.

Then it's very easy to point fingers at other people and use this kind of rhetoric, infestation and comparing people to rodents, insects, showing them as very undesirable people - not people who feel the same, who care about their families too, no, but as people who are different and less human, to dehumanize them.

There's a big difference between being racist and racially insensitive.

Personally, I don't trust people who go out of their way to state they never read or watch horror and insist there's something wrong with those of us who do.

Being Australian, I sometimes feel I'll never walk into a dressing room and get that instant credibility because of where I'm from. But that's fine. Even in Australia, where I've had success, I never assumed that people would follow me because of who I am.

A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.

Liberals instinctively cling to racism or bigotry or hate or narrow-mindedness whenever they can.

Hollywood hasn't changed. It is the most racist, anti-Indian institution in the world.

Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.

The Informe should no longer be the scene used to insult, beat, and criticize on the basis of preconfigured conceptions.

I've heard other actors saying they don't want to play a character with an accent at all. To me, that's kind of an insult to somebody like me who did have an accent.

Stop and search is an integral cog in a racially disproportionate criminal justice system.

I don't understand why the accent you speak in has to indicate what level of intellect you have.

Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.