Quotes About Prejudice

Now how many people in their heart of hearts in that community want to see the demise of this country? How many would cheer, not out loud maybe, but in their heart when things like 9/11 occur and I'll tell you; it's a majority among them.

It never crossed my mind to be a director, and I'll tell you why: because I'm a woman. It just didn't occur to me, but I knew I had to be in film.

Acts of violence that occur simply because of how someone looks are horrific.

I think there would be situations that will occur on the field that would be tough for a person who is homosexual, because I know there will be people definitely taking shots at him.

You always get the odd comment, along the lines of the women are not as good as the men, and I get called a lesbian.

For me personally, I have vitiligo, so my whole career, it's always been this very odd debate: 'Does she want to be white? Is she white and black? Is her mum white?' It's always been this question of my background, my race, and what I stand for.

It is odd what notions men seem to have of the scantiness of a woman's resources. They do not find it anything out of nature that they should be able to exist by themselves; but a woman must always be borne about on somebody's shoulders, and dandled or chirped to, or it is supposed she will fall into the blackest melancholy!

People like to put people in little boxes and if you don't fit you're odd. But they don't really know anything about me.

There is a difference between being offended and being prejudiced and even being bigoted against. There's a difference between that and racism.

I think most five-foot-two people would be quite offended if they were to be called dwarves.

While people loved me in Tashan-E-Ishq,' there were some who felt that since I am a Punjabi, I managed to get it right. The actor in me was really offended. So I took up Dil Se Dil Tak,' as I had to play a Gujarati girl in it.

No offense, Nazis, I don't want to hurt your feelings, but I don't like you. I like Jews.

The idea that somehow or other you can deal with all the problems in the world by banning a particular religious group from entering the U.S.A. is offensive and absurd.

All labels are offensive in some way.

I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stupid and racist kind of terms.

A lot of people said I tried to speak white on the phone. That is farthest thing from the truth and offensive.

When you're brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles.

I get offered a lot of black roles, because apparently I don't look Latino enough.

Have you ever been offered a job by a poor person? No one has.

The characters I usually get offered are described as 'none too bright' or 'funny but a little air-brained.'

I think it is likely that within every department there are some officers who subtly, if not otherwise, are biased in the way they go about enforcing the law. I think that is just life. We know that to be true.

I think that there are real concerns that we have around whose life is important and why. So if the official story is, for example, somebody was running from the police, does their life matter?

More oftentimes than not, you're automatically guilty before innocent.

Anyone who doesn't agree with the Left's approach to immigration oftentimes gets stigmatized as anti-immigrant or anti-Hispanic.