Quotes About Prejudice

A lot of straight people think I'm nuts.

I know gay - gay people who aren't married who are better parents than some, you know, straight people I know who are married.

There's lots of different feminist groups. It's not as straightforward as just looking like a plumber.

When I came into comedy in 2005, I didn't even know there was discrimination against musical comics in the alternative-comedy strain.

I was asked by an NPR reporter once why don't I talk about race that often. I said, 'It's because I'm a neurosurgeon.' And she thought that was a strange response... I said, 'You see, when I take someone to the operating room, I'm actually operating on the thing that makes them who they are. The skin doesn't make them who they are.'

An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically equal; neither of these things is true.

Strangely, while illiberal feminists treat conservative women as men in drag, men who identify as women are treated as women.

I was no stranger to racism. Having grown up a black person in the '60s and '70s, I knew that prejudice was common.

As a British Muslim, I am no stranger to prejudice. I know what it's like to be discriminated against just because of your background or religion.

Race prejudice has nothing to do with color. It has to do with being the stranger.

In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'

As Americans we are no strangers to hate-fueled rhetoric.

There are obstacles and challenges that my dark-skinned sisters face that I will never know. How they are perceived when they walk in a room of strangers is something I will never truly know.

Just being gender non-conforming opens you to trouble from strangers. And violence.

When I finally returned home after my five-week hospitalization, I could feel the stares of strangers on my bald head and thinning eyebrows. Everywhere I went, cancer spoke for me before I could say the first word.

People have the strangest ideas about dwarves.

Contempt for men pervades the most obscure strata of our society.

Some people think racism has dissipated or no longer exists. But it's hidden in more strategic places.

The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.

My third lekku set me aside, even among the Twi'lek community on Kalimahr. It invited ridicule. You wouldn't think that, would you? That in a society filled with so many shapes, species, and creeds, a simple extra something with set me apart? - Tre Sana

It was possible we looked out of sorts. And of course we were aware by now that Italians don't drive bright orange cars (or bright yellow or green cars for that matter) and that the owners of such cars are looked upon with a certain amount of condescension and immediately understood to be Germans, an epithet more or less synonymous with bad taste.

This looks interesting," I say, but what I'm really thinking is, Wow, Aimee, science fiction? Really, could you try any harder to brand yourself with the mark of the nerd herd? What's next, anime?

Those colors of hers really begin their attack on me now, ripping through my skin, electrifying my bloodstream, sending sparks zapping around in my stomach. I take a long pull on my whisky but I can't keep a hard-on from starting. I only mention this because I have a theory that the hard-on is the number one reason for sexism down through history. I mean, it is seriously impossible to really soak in a girl's ideas, no matter how deep or true, when you have a stiffy coming on.

Additional research tells us that lighter-skinned immigrants, mostly from European nations, earn around 15 percent more than darker-skinned immigrants, even when all their respective qualifications and markers of personal productivity are the same.