Quotes About Prejudice

I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle

I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me

When you're waiting alone in the car...everyone outside automatically becomes a rapist...

I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious.

There are too many black players. Italy has no dignity, no pride.

It is impossible for a person to earn separate dignity while his own race is uncivilized.

Do not romanticize the poor...We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty damages our dignity.

In the name of a race you cannot find any dignity in the contemptability of your race.

You can't just constantly judge a situation or a person because of what you're used to or how they look. They might turn out to be this sweet man who asks you what your dreams are. You know?

The problem with University degrees, particularly the more spectacular ones, is that people who possess them can fall into the trap of thinking people who don't have them don't know anything.

A Negro has handicaps enough without having to pay taxes to support the education of white students to learn how to suppress him.

Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.

Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?

Prejudice is not so much dependent upon natural antipathy as upon education.

Racism can happen anywhere, in everyday life as well, but it's always very sad, it shouldn't happen.

I was thought to be retarded as a child, and all the evidence indicates that I was.

If people don't want to cast you, they give you this stupid excuse that it's because you don't fit into a certain image.

I'm so tired of making excuses for old white men.

Anti-black racism is not just an Egyptian problem. It exists in many parts of the Arab world.

Racism exists everywhere. So when people act surprised about racism, I'm the one that's surprised.

I do remember instances where girls would just fawn over me because they liked that I was different - exotic - to them. And they didn't use the word 'Asian' at the time. All of the aspects that make me Asian, they liked.

I had no expectations of white people at all.

Larger people do not get a lot to play in the theater.

A Latino actor can't play this and a Latino actor can't play that because they're Latino.