Quotes About Prejudice

As much as we want to say racism is dead, it's still rearing its ugly head constantly.

You cannot sit quiet while the KKK and other white supremacist groups rear their ugly heads.

My reputation was that I had bad BO, and I was poor, and I was ugly.

I was called the 'Ugly Duckling' of Hindi films because of my dark complexion and south Indian features.

What I hate is nasty, ugly people.

Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists.

There's quite a stigma attached to country music in the UK - but I kind of enjoy that.

Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.

I've never been to Ukraine, but I have heard it's very dangerous for a black man. There are crazy racists who have already sent me death threats.

Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't want to take an active participation in the lives of their children. That if they do, there has to be some sort of ulterior motive.

Someone who hates one group will end up hating everyone - and, ultimately, hating himself or herself.

I know a lot of people who enjoy rap music who aren't black. You can't just say it's black music. To segregate films the way Hollywood likes to segregate films, ultimately everyone loses.

Much as I disliked the un-American idea of marrying a lady with a dowry, I must admit that little Mrs. Godfrey's little private income put everything in a faintly different light.

There are many examples in our history of overheated rhetoric leading to fear and prejudice and government overreach. My own grandfather, a sociologist, was dragged in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee. He said he wasn't a Communist and explained that American Negroes were patriots like everyone else.

This business of demonizing or pre-defining people by the way they look, the religion that they practice, or where they came from is not only un-American but it's going to hurt America.

To say that because of someone's heritage or their ethnicity that they are unable to provide fair judgement is just wrong. It's just not how the judicial system works in our country and not how it ever can work.

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

Societies tend to presume that poor people are unable to handle money. If they had any, people reason, the poor and homeless would probably spend it on fast food and cheap beer, not on fruit or education.

Discrimination of any kind is unacceptable, but we all know there are invisible moments and instances of discrimination that take place each and every day.

It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.

We feel it's unacceptable to be fat, when it has nothing to do with who the person actually is.

Today, nostalgia is almost as unacceptable as racism.

The concept 'a bit racist' doesn't exist. There are no tolerable quantities of racism. It's unacceptable regardless of where it happens or the form that it takes.

As a woman, I have faced issues that men do not have to face - sexism included. I think that all women have, and that is totally unacceptable.