Quotes About Prejudice

If they can look past the fact that I happen to wear mascara on stage - which, by the way, is a ridiculous thing that people have a stigma about - then we promise a good rock show.

Scientists have this stigma of being guys or women in white lab coats with no sense of humor, no passion, devoid of all emotion, and that has been the complete opposite of the scientists I've met.

Here's the thing. We do a movie with a predominantly black cast, and it's put in a category of being a black film. When other movies are done with a predominantly white cast, we don't call them a white film. I'm trying to remove the stigma off things they call black films.

The stigma of movie actors doing television is gone now.

I'm not like, 'I'm a famous doula.' I'm a doula. I'm trying to find a way to get rid of the stigma around 'You're the singer; You're the actor' - we have to be able to do more than one thing.

There is a stigma around athletes, and I think the more that us as humans can do to break those, the better.

I've had to prove myself beyond that street-fighter image with some people in the UFC. It has a stigma to it.

Everyone's got issues. There's a stigma in football that you earn a certain amount of money, how dare you have issues.

The reality of it is there is still a massive stigma against Australian coaches and where we come from and I dont think that has changed or will necessarily change very quickly.

I always prided myself on trying to break the stigma of the 'dumb jock.'

My own experience of dating cis-hetero men has really been a challenge, because of the stigma they have to endure for attempting to love us.

We live in a fear-based world where HIV stigma can prevail.

There is a stigma attached to people who go from singing to acting.

Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals.

Over the years, as I lived in low-income housing, collected government assistance, and lived well under the poverty level as I put myself through college, the comments people made about poor people started to sting. The poor are dirty. Hoarders. Their houses are a mess. Their kids are wild, untamed, and feral-looking.

The perception of fat people in America is that they're fat, therefore they're dumb, they're lazy, and they must stink.

People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'

I don't trust most journalists who belong to Anglo Saxon stock because we know what your inclinations are.

You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge.

A lot of racism comes from projection. White Americans have a stereotype of black people being criminals purely because they can't acknowledge that it was actually white people that stole them from Africa in the first place.

I can't stomach most of the movies about women.

Of course there are some models who are not good, but it has been proven that some models can act. Look at Kim Basinger, Sharon Stone or Andie MacDowell, who were all models - they are really fantastic actresses.

There are always people who are desperate to put you in your one camp and never let you leave. The idea that you could be interested in the Yazidi community and also in lipstick blows people's minds. It's a really short-sighted, Stone Age attitude; it's boring, actually.

Google that, 'old white men,' and you'll find that comes out of the mouths of liberals in a daily basis across the country. They're disparaging a group of people, and it's time somebody stood up for that group of people.