Quotes About Prejudice

I go into meetings, and people have this preconceived notion of me that I didn't work hard to get where I am.

Mainstream Canadians, what some might call the dominant culture, like to think this racism doesn't happen. It's important to remind people that it does and that we have work to do to end it.

Stereotypes happen. I try not to embrace them or avoid them.

Stereotypes should never influence policy or public opinion.

We judge people based on their clothes, social class, and, dare I say, ethnicity. Our comedians make light of these stereotypes regularly, and we laugh at their accuracy.

Stereotypes start somewhere. There's different sides to all of us.

When you are not part of an industry, your knowledge of that field is based on what you read and hear and on the stereotypes that are attached to it.

Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes.

I don't believe in stereotypes. Most of the time, stereotypes are just that.

There really are a lot of stereotypes I fight.

I think the traditional stereotypes are loaded in institutional racism.

I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.

The grand jury system - not just in Ferguson, but nationwide - needs a hard look. Millions feel that officers who are trigger-happy are handed a license to shoot - based not on facts, but on stereotypes the officers carry.

Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely by white writers - the better to preserve the stereotypes, I imagine.

Americans' perceptions of Africa remain rooted in troubling stereotypes of helplessness and perpetual crisis.

In many ways, being yourself is dispelling stereotypes.

I think that all stereotypes sort of begin with truth. I think that the only problem is if that's the only place that you go.

We've got these stereotypes, and I think there can be some trouble when we force these on people.

Before I latched onto the concept of stereotypes, not once did I reckon with the fact that I would never be a 'Hollywood starlet.'

I despise stereotypes. A gay man can be a macho athlete, or he can be an interior designer or any career in between.

No one is born believing in harmful stereotypes. They are learned over time. The good news is they can be unlearned.

And people are always saying he deceptively quick, deceptively athletic, and I don't know if that's just because I'm Asian or what it is, but obviously there's going to be stereotypes that you have to fight.

It's almost a rite of passage for the middle-aged, it seems, to invent generational stereotypes for dumping on the young.

The stereotypes attached to Bollywood were that it's a big, bad world or that it's a dirty world.