Quotes About Prejudice

I think we try to categorise people, put them in pigeon holes, I think we get into all sorts of difficulties.

People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.

A lot of times, women are pigeonholed.

Often you get pigeonholed because of the way you look.

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.

I never dreamed to be a fighter pilot, because those guys are jerks.

Do you know there were two pilots made for 'Have I Got News For You' before the series started two decades ago: one hosted by Angus Deayton and one hosted by me. But I was told that they couldn't have a woman in charge of the news.

A beard and a turban sometimes conjure up negative associations, but if you see someone with a lime-colored, bright orange or pink turban, it disarms people's stereotyped notion of this image.

You learn a lot about America when you own a pit bull. You learn not just who likes your dog; you learn what kind of person likes your dog - and what kind of person fears him.

We might accept pit bulls personally, but America still doesn't accept them institutionally, where it counts; indeed, apartment complexes and insurance companies are arrayed in force against them.

The fact is that you could not be, and still cannot be, a 25-year-old homosexual trying to make it in the British film business or the American film business or even the Italian film business. It just doesn't work and you're going to hit a brick wall at some point.

I've never personally differentiated a person who dressed up in a three-piece suit and goes to Wall Street from a person who dresses up in a polyester uniform and works at McDonalds. I think it's all drag.

When we begin to build walls of prejudice, hatred, pride, and self-indulgence around ourselves, we are more surely imprisoned than any prisoner behind concrete walls and iron bars.

In America, dogs are viewed by their names first, breed second. And dogs live behind walls. It's an unnatural point of view.

President Sadat of Egypt made a historic breakthrough in 1977 when he put an end to war and convinced both Egyptians and Israelis that he was ready to make peace. He broke down the walls of suspicion and prejudice.

We make artificial divisions everywhere: Democrats and Republicans, black and white, millennials and baby boomers. Even those of us who are against building walls find ourselves pointing accusing fingers at those wall-builders.

Perhaps we Germans are a bit sensitive when it comes to walls and race.

I'm getting a bunch more face tattoos, because it doesn't look like I'm ever going to have to apply to a Walmart or Best Buy.

I got tired of walking through Durham with people screaming 'Carolina' at me when I walk through Walmart and stuff like that.

Shah Rukh Khan should remember that if a huge mass in society would boycott his films, he will also have to wander on streets like a normal Muslim.

It was kind of like, 'Who's gonna wanna watch a show about four fat dudes in a pawnshop?'

I don't wanna be like somebody that just depicts black characters where drugs and guns are just a majority of what they have to do.

I just want people to know that I'm a good person, and I'm not a thug like everybody thinks I am.

Everyone wants to say they hate lawyers, and yet I've never met a parent who didn't want their kid to be a lawyer.