Quotes About Prejudice

What is assertive in a man can appear abrasive in a woman, and female leaders risk appearing too feminine or not feminine enough.

If a man hears much that a woman says she is not beautiful.

There are more men than women in mental hospitals - which just goes to show who's driving who crazy.

Of my two 'handicaps' being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.

I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there.

I married beneath me, all women do.

I have nothing against younger women and older men on screen. What is sad is that so many women over 40 who have so much to give aren't being considered to play opposite men their own age or younger.

I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world.

A black...gets a job with a white-owned company. He is the only black at the firm. He works hard, but he's fighting a losing battle against his genes.

It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of contemporary opinion to distinguish between a new idea and nonsense.

You take the quote from Sam Jackson about how he'll never work with a rapper, and I can understand where he's coming from because he says rappers can't act.

I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and went 'oooh'.

Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses...

Long shots do come in and hard work, dedication and perseverance will overcome almost any prejudice and open almost any door.

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

It is an open secret that Jews do not work, but rather let others work for them.

Stereotypes work to help divide women from recognizing their common interests.

As a group, anthropologists are not too fond of people who work in the business world.

The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

It had never once occurred to me that the paper I wanted to work for would not want me. Certainly I never expected to be rejected solely because I was a girl!

I would hope that racism is something that just does not work in this day and age, but I know otherwise.

My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing 'The Aeneid' and they would still have to call it chick lit or mommy lit or menopausal old hag lit.

I'm not a big fan of the class system, to be honest. It feels ugly to me. If you've got something to say and the work is good, it doesn't matter where you come from

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.