Quotes About Prejudice

We must fight intolerance, racism and the far-Right.

The intolerance of people against other people is growing and growing. And the thing is, this is not anything that's changed. This has been going on for years.

Electing the first Catholic president, my grandfather, in 1960, did not mean that religious intolerance disappeared from our land.

There is a national climate here. We're seeing a rise in hate speech, in intolerance, in racism, in division.

Homosexuality in hip-hop is an extension of homosexuality in the black community. The black community is very, very conservative when it comes to homosexuality, and I don't mean conservative in the good way, like we're saving money. I mean very intolerant.

I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.

There's a false concept that being gay and out in Hollywood will hurt your career. It's intrinsic homophobia. It's as if being gay is bad.

We are all inundated with images that present a limited scope of what is considered beautiful. For American women, the closer she is to whiteness/paleness, cisness, thinness, and femininity, the more she is considered beautiful.

Invariably, when people read the headline about Martin Shkreli, they hate Martin Shkreli. When they get to know Martin Shkreli, they love Martin Shkreli.

'Article 15' is an investigative drama where the audience too is an accused party.

You will never see as many great women investors or traders as men. Period. End of story.

Being gay and being a woman has one big thing in common, which is that we both become invisible after the age of 42. Who wants a gay 50-year-old? No one, let me tell you.

There are no black people in Iraq, so how will they know who to shoot at?

A lot of the time in Ireland we put people into boxes and that's it.

Well, it'd certainly be fascinating if we discovered that gays were better at being married than heterosexuals are. Talk about irony.

Looking around at the faces of the home support at Gillingham, the irony was never lost on me that these people had the cheek to call me a 'freak.' Perhaps they should have taken a look at themselves first.

Don't make generalisations about any group of children. For years I have felt angry with those who argue that Shakespeare and the rest of the classic canon are irrelevant to inner-city kids.

People are ready to take good actors, irrespective of whether he is a TV actor or a filmstar.

If I just point out the fact that black people hurt each other, too, then we can ignore the fact that other people harm black people. I think it's an irresponsible argument.

I find it particularly irritating, if I go to a games conference to speak about my work, that often it's presumed that I'm the marketing girl - that's annoying.

On the far left, just as there is on the far right there is a dislike of Israel, not just a dislike, a hatred of Israel.

The mystified idea I had of Israel - the demonization of Israel - it just wasn't true.

There are people who think I am Israeli. That's rubbish.

Israelis are displaying buds of xenophobia.