Quotes About Prejudice

I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap.

I'm not always in that good with middle-aged heterosexual men.

There is no role I cannot play except a midget.

When I tell people in England my show is going on at midnight, they look at you like you're crazy.

Mike Dukakis, you know, he can't get a job mowing lawns.

When black men become millionaires and can buy expensive homes for their families, it infuriates people who cherish the social construct where white people are at the top and people of other ethnic backgrounds are below.

Before I came to Milwaukee, I'd heard the city was the most segregated in the country. I'd heard it was racist. When I got here, it was extremely segregated. I've never lived in a city this segregated.

I remember auditioning for something where the woman was supposed to be 42, and I was 33 or something, and they were like, 'No women over 35 can audition.' That was in the breakdown. I don't think they would do that anymore - I would like to hope that they wouldn't put that in writing - but it's mind-boggling.

To me, it's mind-boggling to think that homosexuality was forbidden up until 1967.

I just think that most of the people are very close minded.

Many times you walk into a room and people have already made up their minds. But it's always good to have something great associated with you.

Indian audience has a mindset that a movie which does well at film festivals will necessarily be slow and boring.

I'm hoping that what I am or what I'm not ethnically doesn't limit me in anyone else's eyes. I guarantee you it doesn't in mine.

The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities.

Minorities do not believe this country will give them a fair shake.

BJP has traditionally been against backward communities and minorities.

A lot of times, when you don't have to deal with some of the circumstances that affect minority culture, you just don't think they exist. This is a conversation I have with lots of my white friends all the time.

Being an African-American, minority, or poor, you get in a tough situation and you don't get a fair shake.

They'll say, 'Oh, he's sexy,' but women still go for guys who are 6ft 2 ins. I don't believe any of it for a minute.

We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of thought, and most people would die sooner than think – in fact they do so." The ABC of Relativity [1925]

Cuz all they have is bigotry and they're calling it Christianity.

if that handsome fellow were a cripple he wouldn't repel me, but he isn't a cripple, he is that handsome fellow, so he repels me...

myself. We constantly portray and judge people only in false terms, we judge them unjustly and portray them meanly, I said to myself, in every instance, no matter how we portray, no matter how we judge them. Such

The human mind is simply not able to grasp this terrible truth: a nation was transformed into a killing machine programmed to destroy millions of innocent people for no reason other than that they were different.