Quotes About Prejudice

What I find most deplorable is cruelty of spirit - racism, casteism, and religious or social prejudice.

The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.

In countries where there are no racial differences or no religious differences, people find other reasons to set aside one certain group of people and generally spit in their direction.

So many people have opinions based not on fact but spite.

In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to bring up.

If you are a 19-year-old woman, there are very specific things that directors and the people in positions of power in the industry - who tend to be older men - are going to want you to be and do. They are not going to want some chatty, difficult, slightly spoilt girl.

There were a couple Aborigines in my primary school, but we never spoke to them. They kept to themselves, and we never really even locked eyes. They weren't acknowledged officially either.

I got all A's and was hated for it; I spoke correctly and was called a punk.

Middle and high school is a time of people telling you who you are before you know who you are. I was in advanced classes at Frick and Schenley, and people would say I was trying to be white because of the way I spoke. Or they'd say I was gay.

I actually spoke to one of the heads of a studio, and he said I confuse middle America. Basically, when they see a black person, they see athlete, they see rapper, or they see criminal or something like that. And then when they hear a British accent, they hear posh, so they hear lawyer or doctor.

I was incredibly nervous about doing a period drama. I thought that to play period, you had to be English-looking and blonde and very well spoken, and have gone to drama school.

Now the bigots have to get creative. Good luck coming up with slurs for Chechens. Go back where you came from, Ushanka head.

How could homosexuals possibly srew up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals?

This issue has brought out the ugly in our society.

When she smiles niggers ask her for her hand in marriage; when I smile folks check their wallets.

Blacks can get into medical school with a lower grade ... If that's true, a Jew should be able to play basketball with a lower net.

I consider racism to be a medical problem. Racists need serious medical and psychiatric help, because they are killing themselves and making others suffer along with them.

Stigma against mental illness is a scourge with many faces, and the medical community wears a number of those faces.

South Africans will kick down a statue of a dead white man but won't even attempt to slap a live one. Yet they can stone to death a black man simply because he's a foreigner

I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving.

Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.

I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.

In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men would make the color of a mans skin the criteria for granting him civil rights.

Marihuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men's shadows and look at a white woman twice.