Quotes About Prejudice

We need to ensure that no one is denied employment, housing, opportunities, or benefits because of their sexual orientation.

Many young people, many children, are being abused, being put down, being bullied because of their sexual orientation.

You can't confuse safety with religion or national origin.

So the mayor of New Orleans would have used his own buses had the people had been white?

I never thought I'd play an orthodox Jewish man.

One of my first real parts was 'Crash' - that won the Oscar.

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

I didn't know what gay was. There was no such thing when I was growing up. I knew I had crushes on boys, but I didn't think there was anything wrong with that until I started to hear about it from the other kids in school.

I lived in an all-black neighborhood, followed by an all-white one, and other kids in the always called me Mexican in both neighborhoods.

We ought not to demonize a single gang member, and we ought not to romanticize a single gang.

I would even say that my parents, and their friends in our community, thought of education as a kind of armor against racism.

Dark skin is considered less than light skin in the in the minds of many in our community and in the media.

When we attach ourselves to national identities, then we enter into a cycle of conflict. I didn't choose where I was born or who to be or what people would call me.

There's a little racism out here, always was, and always will be.

We often judge people by their cars and the money they have... Sometimes worth is decided based on outer appearances and that's sad.

Most American media outlets that are controlled by Jews seem to be reflexively, or at least habitually, anti-Israel.

American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.

Some of the journalists who've ended up writing about our band - and this is disappointing to say - have a very narrow outlook. And because of that they fundamentally misunderstand us.

I don't think I'm alarmist. I'm more disappointed by the euphemisms in some instances than outright bigotry. Now, to me, you walk around with a Klan hat on or you've got a swastika on you arm, you just look like a dope, you know what I mean?

I feel like I can be myself in L.A. I feel like Mississippi is a little close-minded; not all of Mississippi is, but just the part that I came from. They really don't get outsiders.

If I was to go around as a white woman, a white man, an Asian woman, an Asian man... the world would just respond to you so differently because of your outward form, right?

When I first joined the DA's office, there weren't that many women. So there was a fair degree of sexism. Everybody kind of got over it when they saw you doing your job.

I just think overall there's not as many female ministers than there are male ministers.

There's so much bigotry that needs to be overcome.