Quotes About Prejudice

Unfortunately, oftentimes people hire and give opportunities to people that look like them. They don't realize how much their own internal lives or privilege gets in the way of looking for people outside of the traditional spaces where they always find people.

You always make a film with the hope that all types of people will want to see your work and that it doesn't matter about your color, but unfortunately it still does.

They were concerned about the racial issue. They thought it was not a safe issue to go Asian, unfortunately.

We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.

Fear, ignorance, and hatred - these are the trinity of malice.

The narrow-minded find it convenient to create stereotypes, and then try to fit everybody, everything and every situation into those stereotypes.

Most people have this tendency to make judgments on others based on preconceptions, especially when they are dealing with them for the first time.

Just remember that people who are known for their looks are rarely known for anything else.

Bias rules our minds and causes us to overlook the obvious. From 'Fillossofee: Messages From a Grandfather', by Robert Gately

You don't have to look nice to be wise.

Morality is always prejudicial.

Prejudice begets prejudice, you see. Knowledge does not always evolve into wisdom.

The truth is there are two hundred white women raped in America by a black man for every one black woman raped by whites.

Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.

A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'.

Women are more balanced than men. Where the most brilliant minds have so far have mostly belonged to men, no women has ever been as stupid as a man can be.

The air is the only place free from prejudices.

I think, like many women, I was judgmental toward women as they aged.

Women with whiskers... its a bummer.

I don't usually get to play sophisticated women. I usually do the old scrubs, chavs or slappers.

Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.

It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.

Those that think my clothes are androgynous also still believe that women should look like Barbie dolls. That's precisely the problem, the deep-rooted assumptions about what is feminine.

I always smile when I hear that women cannot excel in mathematics.