Quotes About Prejudice

Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

I think the truth is, we are all racist, really, when it comes down to it. I think all of us have to check ourselves from time to time, and say, 'Look, that sort of attitude isn't good enough.' It takes discipline to keep our prejudices out.

The truth is, I feel sorry for the Old Etonians. Everybody should be judged on his or her own merits. Assuming that toffs are 'out of touch' is more modern and fashionable than assuming they have a 'natural fitness for government,' but it's no fairer.

I grew up when people were afraid to 'come out' as gay. If you asked me how many gay kids I grew up with or went to school with, I would have said none - which of course could not have been true. The truth is I have no idea how many confused and frightened kids I grew up with. They are still out there.

The truth is, people don't know me. When people don't know you, they're going to try to get to know you as quickly as possible, because you're now taking the place of somebody that they love dearly, or somebody that they hate sincerely, and so they need to know who you are.

Racism is a cancer that America does not want to cure.

It's hard being bisexual, omnisexual, multisexual, whatever you want to call it, when people have their agenda and expect you to just represent their agenda.

I hate that when people are like, "Well, all dwarves know each other, right?" And you want to get mad, but you can't because we do.

Avoid people with gold teeth who want to play cards

I read all the great philosophers but most people just hear what they want to hear and it makes it easy for them to brand us devil worshippers.

People hate people just cause they want someone different to hate.

I was thinking about picking up kayaking, but I didn't want anyone to think I had herpes.

I was playing this horrible part. I didn't didn't want to play it because the character was an awful racist. But I'm glad I did it because I met Sidney Poitier.

I prefer the 1950s where people were like, "I'm a white supremacist, and that's who I am." Now people want to burn a cross on your lawn and call themselves not racists.

If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see race.' Biggest lie ever told.

Some people want to have controversy between the races.

Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond, and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.

People sometimes hold themselves back because they want to use racism as an excuse for them not being able to achieve what they want to achieve.

There's this idea that when you turn 40, you automatically go to adult contemporary heaven, but I want to try and challenge that.

What would it take for you to acknowledge that race is an issue? Maybe you don't want to acknowledge that race is an issue.

People see weakness in a woman and they want to help. They see weakness in a man and they want to stamp it out

I'm not for women, frankly, in any job. I don't want any of them around. Thank God we don't have any in the Cabinet.

If you're a beautiful Caucasian woman, and you commit a heinous crime, it's like people don't want to acknowledge the reality of your actions.

People want to put you in the box, and you just have to fight past their preconceived notions.