Quotes About Prejudice

I think people are way less judgmental about chunky guys.

I think in our society we too often choose the people we associate with based on our own hasty judgments.

I think people make a lot of judgments about me based on what I wear and all the things that I do.

In junior high, some would've seen me as a professional, a lawyer, a doctor, an engineer. Others would've seen me in jail. All depends on who you talked to.

Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people every day.

It is apparent, if you go back through our history, that the grand juries of the criminal justice system do not value black lives.

I have heard stories of how the Malayali jury members trying to play down actors from our own state, stating various reasons.

It ticks me off to hear people say, 'Hey man, at your age you don't look like you're slowing down a bit.' Like, can I just be a football player? Why does the 33 age have to coincide with me when you talking football?

Just because I've got blonde hair and haven't been to Bosnia doesn't mean I'm a bimbo. I am still a serious journalist.

Just because you're gay doesn't mean you're not homophobic.

I don't know EDM artists or the albums. At first I thought it was all just one guy, some DJ called EDM.

Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.

Not liking me because I'm black is so juvenile and immature, because there's many reasons to not like me.

I don't know why people always think of the Kennedys as a Boston family.

When you have somebody like a Donald Trump - he made no bones about trying to disprove Barack Obama's Americanism in trying to make him out to be some foreigner that was born in Kenya. I thought that to be very racist.

Everyone else in the world still thinks of American food as ketchup.

With the Kick It Out campaign, I was interested in asking: 'Why is antisemitism a lesser racism than other racisms?' I genuinely believe that to be the case - that negative stuff said against Jews isn't considered that important.

I got kicked out of four high schools just because people took issue with the colour of my skin. As if I could help the colour I was born.

My best friend in the Marines, her name is Kim, said one day while we were in Iraq that homosexuals in the Forces should be put on the front line because they deserved to die. This was my best friend talking.

Not all cops are bad, but this kind of harassment has been going on for years in the ghetto.

I'm not sure if being Chinese really helped, but I do think that if a non-Asian had written a book called 'Crazy Rich Asians,' they might not have been looked upon so kindly.

I won't say that women belong in the kitchen, but they don't belong in the dugout.

I want men to see that women aren't only good in the kitchen, but can play cricket too.

I think I was scared of the drag thing, as a lot of gay boys are. It's sort of knocked out of you in junior high. I wouldn't find guys who were very feminine attractive. Then, doing 'Hedwig,' I got to be man and woman, really butch and really femme at the same time, and I realized, this is kind of the ideal.