Quotes About Prejudice

The Jews are not merely hook-nosed but understand money instinctively.

The Women's March hates Jews!

The Jews are always up for a laugh.

For the anti-Semite, the problems of the world can invariably be ascribed to the Jews; for the Communist, to the capitalists.

American Jews are behind the world economic crisis that has hit Greece also.

Contemporary anti-Semites claim they have nothing against Jews - they just hate the Jewish state.

I'm not saying Jews should only play Jews... I personally think actors should be allowed to act.

We've come a long way from the days of Jim Crow, and yes, we elected a black president, but racism lives.

We have always policed the bodies of people of color, and black people in particular. The Jim Crow South is a classic example. White flight in the North. School segregation. Gerrymandering.

I am a lifelong Mississippian. I remember Jim Crow, 'colored' and 'white' water fountains, and my mother's inability to try on a dress in a store because no white woman would buy it if she put it back.

After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.

I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

I know, when people are considering me for jobs, sometimes it's, 'Well, you're in a comic-book movie.' And I'm, like, 'But I'm killing myself to try to do the best I can!'

How many gangsters you know, from Al Capone up to John Gotti, been gay?

I never met Johnny Rotten, and I didn't want to meet Johnny Rotten.

If somebody is saying that I should not compete because I'm a man, I don't know what to say to that. And if somebody is saying that I had it easy, I would invite them to join the military and enter Indiana politics in 2010 as a gay person. See how easy they find it.

Before I joined the BBC I was, like most of the intelligentsia, prejudiced not only against that institution but against broadcasting in general.

Whenever I go to any particular event, people are shocked that I'm a fighter. To be a fighter, I have to look a certain way, and to be an actress, I have to look a certain way. I have to change that; I've joined acting to do meaningful cinema and to show that there is much more than glamour that actresses can offer.

Desegregation is a joke.

The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.

Behind every racist joke is a scientific fact.

I always thought of Levittown as a joke.

Most of my jokes are racist - usually about the Irish.

People make jokes about how black people are the first ones to be killed off.