Quotes About Prejudice

When you think of the sort of things that happen when a genocide happens, it's again not people who are intrinsically evil.

I've been locked up for not having insurance, only to be released. I mean, this sort of thing is just par for the course when you're Black or brown in America.

Because I'm a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did 'The Blind Side,' where I played a father who's a really loving, likeable sort of person, a lot of those barriers were broken down. People saw me as something softer, not so much as a heavy anymore.

The mid-eighteen-thirties marked the rise of eugenics and racialism, with phrenology emerging as just one of the many pseudosciences that sought to enact, reinforce, and restrict racial difference.

My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.

Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination.

And when I'd be reporting in Israel, Palestinians would say, the Jews they're not like us, and the Jews would say the same things about the Palestinians, they don't want what we want. And I never bought it as a reporter and I don't buy it as a novelist. I think, you know, the sound of somebody crying for their lost child sounds the same.

As a society, we pick words that are offensive based on what we're most afraid of. We associate sounds with some dangerous idea, and right now the most dangerous thing to us are the differences between us.

As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.

At the end, ignorance is the source of biases. If we cure that, there's nothing to fear and hate.

The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.

Chinese players are not as naturally skilled like South American or European players, like players who learned football when they were kids. They're not good.

I remember when I first came to America, nobody had a clue what a black Englishman was. I was either South African or Australian to them.

When people think Down South they think: 'They're not up on game,' or 'They ain't hip.'

Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape.

In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.

In South Africa, they think we're pygmies!

I think we've become blind in this country to the ways in which we've managed to reinvent a caste-like system here in the United States, one that functions in a manner that is as oppressive, in many respects, as the one that existed in South Africa under apartheid and that existed under Jim Crow here in the United States.

Nobody thought a white girl should learn to cook in South Africa. I went to drama school. My mother was an actress, so I thought I'd be an actress.

I can't start off with the premise that a coach is better than me just because he's from Europe or South America.

South Carolina is one of the most racist states in America. John C. Calhoun is the name of a building at our school and he was a slave owner. Clemson, the name Clemson itself, was like a guy who was a slave owner. South Carolina, their whole history is messed up.

I can tell you as a black person in South Carolina whose grandparents grew up through Jim Crow, when you lose the courts and justice no longer becomes just, we're in a world of trouble.

I think that people always just assumed that I was a liberal because I came from Southeast Seattle.

Being a Southern person and a blonde, it's not a good combination. Immediately, when people meet you, they think of you as not being smart.